Platform Engineer

The Company

Capital Markets Gateway LLC (CMG) is a capital markets-focused fintech transforming global equity capital markets (ECM) through data, technology, and connectivity. As the preferred source for ECM analytics and the first network connecting the buy-side and sell-side for ECM workflows, we are committed to reshaping how capital markets operate. Founded in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, CMG has completed three successful fundraising rounds and is backed by a group of the world’s most prestigious financial institutions. The CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 150 buy-side firms representing $40 trillion in AUM and 22 global investment banks. For more information, please visit www.cmgx.io.

The Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help drive our DevOps, infrastructure, reliability, and tooling initiatives. In this role, you’ll join a team responsible for building and maintaining enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure that supports microservices and cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape and influence new solutions that improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency, helping ensure our technology runs smoothly and remain highly available for our customers.

Our Engineering Team

The CMG engineering team consists of domain experts who work collaboratively within a culture of cross-domain knowledge sharing. We value engineers who are passionate about modern technologies and best practices.

Our engineers are encouraged to challenge the status quo and are constantly seeking improvement and efficiency in our code-base and platform. CMG engineers are empowered to explore solutions using bleeding edge technologies such as AI and bring recommendations to the table. We are in a period of making impactful engineering decisions.

As part of our process, we believe in taking the time for research and prototyping - this is critical in making the right decisions. Given the experience of our team, we have naturally adopted best practices from local development, through code review and into production rollouts. Besides the standard pull requests, test automation, code coverage tracking, containerization, and one-click deployments, we are constantly reviewing these foundational components to develop new best practices.

Responsibilities

Design and implement tools and technologies to provision and configure an enterprise software system hosted in Kubernetes

Design and implement architecture and networking solutions within Azure

Automate/script existing processes using languages such as python and bash

Provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources using Terraform and Terragrunt

Actively monitor the application environment and respond to incidents

Conduct root cause analysis for production incidents

Oversee cloud infrastructure and recommend any potential improvements to technology or process

Contribute to team planning to solve engineering challenges

Be a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers through education and review

Have a broad awareness of related projects and industry trends, and encourage innovative practices among peers

Provide detailed feedback and suggestions to team code reviews

Document and demonstrate solutions through written documentation, diagrams, and readable code

Qualifications

Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Docker: 3+ years

Azure cloud infrastructure: 3+ years

Experience with system monitoring and alerting. Data-driven system improvements using DataDog and/or Grafana: 3+ years

Experience supporting, configuring, deploying RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch: 3+ years

Experience with CI/CD tools: Github Actions, ArgoCD or Harness: 3+ years

Experience supporting customer-facing web-delivered software: 3+ years

Working knowledge of UNIX/Linux

Bash and Python experience

Excellent communication skills in English

Our Tech Stack

Azure as an infrastructure provider.

Docker + Kubernetes for microservice orchestration using Istio service mesh

PostgreSQL for relational db, ElasticSearch for indexing, Redis for caching

DataDog, Grafana and OpenTelemetry for observability

GitHub for our Version Control and CI (with our own runners)

CD: Harness and FluxCD

Terraform and Terragrunt as IaaC

Python and bash for scripting infrastructure

React - We’re all in on React – we maintain multiple single-page React apps written in TypeScript

Latest .NET version for our backend services

GraphQL - Our standard for API communication is GraphQL served by our DotNet Back-End

Our Values

We innovate with purpose

We focus on outcomes vs. output

We believe diverse and inclusive teams fuel innovation

We are humble yet candid

We do right by the customer

What We Offer

Equity

Unlimited PTO (15 days + bank holidays + unlimited additional paid leave)

Comprehensive benefits program managed by Globalization Partners

Premium life and income protection

Top private medical and dental insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Pension contributions

Remote work environment

Education reimbursement

Continuous learning opportunities

Employee referral bonus