About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Conditions
- Our tech stack: 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.