The Role:
Ziina is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, Infrastructure & Developer Experience to join our team. This role is an exciting opportunity to shape the foundation that every Ziina engineer builds on: the infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability systems that keep our rapidly growing fintech platform fast, reliable, and easy to develop. We're at a major inflection point in our growth, with real multi-region and low-latency challenges at scale, and we're looking for the right person to drive the technical excellence that makes scaling possible.
As part of a small, agile team, our ideal candidate is a creative problem-solver with the vision to build from the ground up and the skill to own systems end-to-end. You'll thrive in our fast-paced environment by making tradeoffs and focusing on high-impact solutions. We're looking for someone who is as ambitious as we are to deliver high-quality products to our users. In short, we want owners who are ready to build big things with us.
As a Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure) at Ziina you will:
Build and own scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports high-performance applications across multiple regions
Own and continuously improve our CI/CD pipelines and release workflows so that shipping is fast, safe, and predictable
Implement infrastructure as code and automation across all environments to ensure consistency and reduce manual toil
Improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response so problems are caught early and resolved quickly
Reduce operational overhead and improve platform stability as we scale
Enable engineering teams through reliable, efficient platform systems and self-service tooling
To succeed in this role, you likely:
Have 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with a strong focus on infrastructure and developer experience
Have deep expertise with cloud services (ideally AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
Are proficient with containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes — and understand microservices architecture
Have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar)
Are comfortable with on-call responsibilities and have a track record of improving incident response practices
Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost your productivity
Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE
What would amaze us:
Proven experience building infrastructure for fintech or other high-reliability, high-throughput platforms
A track record of tackling real scaling problems — reducing latency, improving resilience, or operating multi-region systems
History of building platform and developer experience tooling that measurably boosted engineering velocity
Successful leadership in major infrastructure evolution, including architectural transitions, migrations, or multi-region rollouts
Active engagement in the tech community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing
Our tech stack:
We’ve built a modular architecture with the principles of reliability, scalability, and maintainability in mind. Our current stack is:
Typescript, Node.js and Nest.js for our main application’s backend.
Swift/SwiftUI for our iOS app, Kotlin for our Android app.
Next.js, React and Typescript for our web applications.
GraphQL Federation for our client-facing APIs and Kafka for our inter-service communication.
PostgresSQL for consistent and durable storage, Redis for quick fetching, Elasticsearch for quick searching.
AWS for hosting our cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes for orchestrating our workloads.
Terraform for IaC.
Github Actions for CI/CD.