Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

About the role

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.