Senior Platform Engineer | Bankrate

*This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East coast preference) with hybrid being central to our New York NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.

Bankrate is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build the internal platforms tooling and standards that enable our product engineering teams to ship software safely consistently and at Platform Engineering team partners with product teams to define shared patterns automation and guardrails empowering teams to own their deployments and services while benefiting from a reliable secure and well-supported platform foundation.

This role sits at the intersection of software engineering cloud infrastructure and developer experience. Youll focus on building systems that improve reliability and productivity across the organization rather than managing day-to-day deployments for individual teams.

What Youll Do

• Design and evolve shared platform patterns and standards for infrastructure service operation and delivery workflows used by product teams.
• Build internal tooling and automation that make those patterns easy to adopt and consistently apply.
• Partner with application engineers to understand friction points and translate them into scalable platform solutions.
• Design and maintain reusable CI/CD frameworks and workflows using modern automation and pipeline tooling.
• Create and maintain infrastructure-as-code abstractions using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation enabling teams to provision and operate resources safely and consistently.
• Improve containerized application platforms using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes/ECS focusing on tooling documentation and operational patterns.
• Embed security observability and reliability best practices directly into platform systems and templates.
• Participate in incident reviews and reliability discussions to identify systemic improvements that can be addressed at the platform level.
• Continuously improve developer experience by reducing cognitive load shortening feedback loops and eliminating repetitive work.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of ownership clarity and continuous improvement.

What Were Looking For

• 5 years of experience in platform infrastructure cloud or systems engineering roles.
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud-based engineering systems (e.g. AWS Azure or GCP).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent including building reusable modules or abstractions.
• Experience supporting containerized workloads and service platforms (e.g. Docker Kubernetes ECS or similar).
• Solid software engineering experience in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python Go JavaScript).
• Experience designing measuring and operationalizing service reliability using concepts such as SLIs SLOs and error budgets and applying those signals to platform design decisions.
• Experience implementing observability practices using tools such as Datadog New Relic Prometheus or Cloud-native monitoring solutions.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and how platform systems enable product teams.
• A security-first mindset with experience embedding guardrails into shared systems.
• Strong communicator who can partner across teams to align on platform patterns influence adoption and drive consistent engineering practices.

Compensation:

• Cash Compensation Range: $130000 - $205000 per year

*Note actual salary is based on geographic location qualifications and experience

Additionally the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical dental and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. Thats why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Bankrate is redefining the future of financial decision-making. For nearly five decades weve empowered tens of millions of consumers to make smarter financial choices and helped hundreds of leading financial institutions grow. Today were evolving from a marketplace into a next-generation technology platformunderpinned by proprietary data AI-driven innovation and deep enterprise integrations. With our track record of delivering consumers quantifiably better offersfor example on home loans where we lead the marketBankrate stands at the center of the $60B U.S. financial services acquisition opportunity. As we expand through omnichannel marketing and strategic partnerships and launch unique consumer product applications were building a more efficient personalized and connected financial ecosystemone grounded in trust. Join us as we transform five decades of credibility into the next era of financial technology.

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