Senior DevOps Engineer Embedded Payments

About the opportunity

Join our Embedded Payments team as a DevOps Engineer to make a real impact every day. We say that because we know that every conversation we have every pipeline we build and every system we automate is another opportunity for us to elevate everyday life experiences for our customers and the people and communities they serve.

Reporting into the DevOps Engineering Manager youll help us build and scale the infrastructure behind our cloud-native payment orchestration platform that processes significant transaction volume across multiple Xplor brands. You are passionate about building reliable secure systems and the automation that keeps them running smoothly while maintaining engineering best practices. You think about infrastructure end-to-end from CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code down to monitoring alerting and incident response. Youre comfortable owning the platform that everything runs on and collaborating closely with backend frontend QA and engineering teams to ship and operate high-quality software.

Our Tech Stack 

• Cloud: AWS (ECS Lambda RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL API Gateway SQS EventBridge Cognito KMS VPC) 
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform 
• CI/CD: Bitbucket Pipelines 
• Observability: SigNoz Grafana CloudWatch 
• Performance & Load Testing: k6 
• Security & Compliance: PCI DSS AWS-native controls 
• Application stack supported:  services React frontends 

Responsibilities & Duties 

• Design build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform with attention to scalability cost and PCI-scoped network segmentation 
• Own and evolve the observability stack  SigNoz for distributed tracing and metrics Grafana for dashboards structured logging so engineers can answer whats happening in production without paging you 
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket Pipelines including deployment guardrails automated rollback strategies and environment promotion workflows 
• Design and run performance and load tests with k6 or other custom tools as needed establish baseline benchmarks and partner with engineering to address bottlenecks before they reach production 
• Participate in on-call rotations lead incident response for infrastructure issues and drive postmortems that produce durable fixes 
• Define and track SLOs error budgets and operational KPIs for payment-critical services 
• Improve deployment velocity and safety faster pipelines better preview environments safer migration tooling 
• Partner with security and compliance to maintain PCI DSS posture support audits (Armanino/Vanta) and codify controls 
• Manage cost and capacity across AWS right-sizing reserved capacity strategy and identifying optimization opportunities 
• Use AI-assisted tools effectively to accelerate infrastructure work without compromising review quality or security posture 

Qualifications :

What would make me a good candidate

We are looking for curious and empathetic people. We also love to hear from people who are motivated by meaningful work resonate with our core values have a positive outlook are comfortable with ambiguity and thrive working in an ever-evolving and complex environment. We are inspired by meeting big-picture thinkers and doers people who can be both tactical and strategic aim high and put people first in everything they do.

Youll need:

• 5 years of professional DevOps SRE or Platform Engineering experience with a Computer Science/Engineering degree or equivalent 
• Strong hands-on AWS experience across compute (ECS Lambda) networking (VPC security groups) data (RDS/Aurora) and event-driven services (SQS EventBridge) 
• Production Terraform experience module design state management drift handling and multi-environment patterns 
• Experience operating an observability stack in production; familiarity with SigNoz Grafana or comparable tools (Datadog New Relic Prometheus) 
• Experience designing and running load tests with k6 or comparable tools (JMeter Gatling Locust) 
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines GitHub Actions CircleCI or similar) 
• Strong shell scripting ability or similar in a scripting oriented language (Python Go etc...) 
• Ability to read and understand back end and and front end code in order to implement infrastructure more effectively 
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals such as sockets routing load balancing SSL/TLS encryption tunneling firewalls/security groups etc... 
• Understanding of access control and identity management (IAM OIDC Cognito OAUTH in general or similar) 
• Comfort leading incident response and writing postmortems that drive systemic improvement 
• Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code Cursor Copilot etc.) and an articulate point of view on where they help and where they dont 
• Comfortable working on a 100% remote team and operating independently within an agile group 

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience operating PCI-compliant or otherwise regulated environments 
• Experience with payments infrastructure or other high-availability transactional systems 
• Familiarity with Vanta or comparable compliance automation tooling 
• Experience tuning PostgreSQL for high-throughput workloads 
• Exposure to KMS-based cryptography secrets management and key rotation strategies 
• Experience with chaos engineering or game-day exercises 

At Xplor we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersections of our differences - people of diverse cultures generations disciplines and lived experiences. So even if you think you do not tick all the boxes we still encourage you to apply.

Additional Information :

Values and Life at Xplor

Our five core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:

• Find a better way
• Do the right thing
• Say it straight
• Win together
• Own the outcome

If these values sound like you and describe people you want to work with you will thrive at Xplor.

As an Xplorer you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.

Some of our perks and benefits are:

• Paid Parental Leave benefit programs
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council Global Mentorship Program
• Access to free mental health support
• Flexible working arrangements

Ready to apply

To start your application please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word moonshot at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.

We kindly ask you to apply through our careers portal or external job boards (LinkedIn Naukri Indeed etc) only. Please dont send your application via email. They will not be forwarded. 

More about us 

More than 130000 businesses in 72 countries rely on Xplor to run their day and get paid processing over $47 billion in payments annually. Our connected ecosystem helps operators spend less time managing complexity and more time delivering the experiences that matter most. 

Xplor is backed by world-class investors Advent International Battery Ventures and Silver Lake. 

Good to know

To be considered for employment you must be legally authorised to work in the location (country) youre applying for. Xplor does not sponsor visas either at the time of hire or at any later time. 

To learn more about us and our products please visit  also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process and Artificial Intelligence

We believe in transparent hiring. We use an applicant tracking system that includes artificial intelligence enabled features to assist with the screening and assessment of job applications such as candidate scoring or ranking. These tools support our recruitment process but all hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team following human review. We do not rely on artificial intelligence to make final hiring decisions. Find our Candidate AI Usage guidelines here.

Xplor is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal opportunities to all our employees and to all eligible applicants for employment in our company. We do not unfairly discriminate on any ground including race religion color ancestry marital status gender sexual orientation age nationality ethnic origin disability or any other category protected by applicable law.

We make it a priority to respond to every applicant.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time