Senior Platform Engineer (f/m/d)

Bunch
Berlin, DE
Remote

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior infrastructure engineers comfortable with designing cloud-based systems for financial services, requiring 6+ years in DevOps or Platform Engineering roles.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers with deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise seeking a collaborative infrastructure role.
    — “Strong expertise with AWS cloud platform
  • Platform engineers who value mentoring and driving DevOps best practices across teams.
    — “Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices
  • Candidates with SRE experience looking to apply reliability engineering in fintech.
    — “Background in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices

Things to consider

  • Hybrid work arrangement requires 3 days per week in-office despite remote label.
    — “hybrid setup (3 times/week in office)
  • Take-home assignment requires 3-4 hours of hands-on work for technical screening.
    — “the actual hands-on work should not take more than 3-4 hours

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate concrete examples of automating security checks in delivery pipelines.
    — “Integrate automated testing and security checks into delivery workflows
  • Highlight leadership in technical decision-making for infrastructure projects.
    — “Lead technical decision-making for infrastructure and platform initiatives
  • Showcase TypeScript or Go skills beyond infrastructure tooling.
    — “Programming skills in TypeScript, Python or Go
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful infrastructure design
  • high-quality software delivery
Typical background
DevOpscloud computing

Skills & requirements

Required

Cloud InfrastructureDevOpsKubernetesCi/cd Pipelines

Preferred

SRE PracticesCompliance FrameworksProgramming Skills

Stack & domain

AWSKubernetesDockerTerraformGithub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaElkDatadogNetworkingSystem AdministrationCloud SecurityPythonTypeScriptGoCollaborationCommunicationDevOpsPlatform Engineering

About the role

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Bunch, you'll be crafting and maintaining the backbone of their private market platform, ensuring seamless operations through robust infrastructure and automation, ideal for someone with a passion for both DevOps and Platform Engineering.

Original posting from Bunch via Ashby

bunch https://www.bunch.capital/ is building the backbone of private markets. We are enabling next-gen fund operations with one integrated system that combines secure data infrastructure, AI-powered workflows and expert fund services. If you value ownership, growth through real responsibility, and working with a thoughtful, ambitious team, this role might be for you.

YOUR ROLE

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and automation that power our applications. In this role, you will combine the speed and reliability focus of DevOps with the architectural depth of Platform Engineering, ensuring that our development teams can deliver high-quality software quickly, securely, and at scale.

You will be responsible for designing infrastructure, implementing automation, ensuring platform reliability, and guiding the evolution of our delivery pipelines and cloud environments. This is a highly collaborative position that bridges operations, development, and security.

TOP RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design, implement, and maintain cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) for scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Manage infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, or similar tools.
  • Oversee container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
  • Ensure robust disaster recovery and high availability strategies.
  • Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid and reliable deployments.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments.
  • Integrate automated testing and security checks into delivery workflows.
  • Implement logging, alerting, and observability tools to monitor infrastructure and application performance.
  • Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, outages, or system health issues.
  • Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve deployment failures.
  • Ensure infrastructure and delivery processes meet security, compliance, and governance standards.
  • Apply security patches and updates to infrastructure and platform components.
  • Partner with software engineers to ensure development aligns with operational best practices.
  • Lead technical decision-making for infrastructure and platform initiatives.
  • Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices across teams.

ABOUT YOU

  • At least 6 years of experience in senior Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
  • Strong expertise with AWS cloud platform.
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, etc.).
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or any similar tool).
  • Strong understanding of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
  • Solid grasp of networking, system administration, and cloud security practices.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex issues.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
  • Experience leading projects and influencing engineering decisions.
  • Nice to Have:
  • Background in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
  • Programming skills in TypeScript, Python or Go.

OUR TECH STACK

We strive to keep our technology stack as simple and efficient as possible.

  • Frontend & Backend: TypeScript on both the frontend (Svelte) and the backend (Node.js with Nest.js)
  • Database: MySQL
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes (K8S) on top of AWS
  • Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub
  • Third-Party Applications:
  • FusionAuth for authentication
  • Retool for low-code internal frontend solutions
  • Twilio and SendGrid for sending SMS and emails

WORKPLACE AND BENEFITS

  • Become one of the key builders of bunch and architect our go-to-market strategy
  • Take part in a network of people passionate about investment and work closely with the most interesting players in the private market
  • Benefit from working with a diverse mix of talents, unrivaled energy, and team spirit within a culture of inclusion
  • Flexible hours, hybrid setup (3 times/week in office)
  • 28 days of vacation per year + 2 company days, on top of public holidays
  • A competitive compensation package
  • A great tech and work setup with everything you need

WHAT YOUR INTERVIEW JOURNEY WILL LOOK LIKE

  • First interview with the People team (30 min): get acquainted with the bunch and to understand if what we’re offering is what you’re searching for
  • Hiring Manager Interview (60 min): this conversation with an Engineering Manager will cover product-focused culture and values, including collaboration, ownership, self-awareness, and quality standards.
  • Take-home assignment for you to showcase your ability to design and implement reliable infrastructure and platform solutions. We will send a task and give you a few days to work on it (the actual hands-on work should not take more than 3-4 hours).
  • Technical Interview (60 min): this interview in the form of a technical conversation will focus on discussing your assignment, approaches.
  • Final Round: Meet our VP of Engineering (45 min) to learn about ways of working, vision for bunch, and team culture.
  • Meet-and-Greet (Optional - 30 min) to meet a few members of your future cross-functional team.

About bunch

bunch is building the operating infrastructure for the next generation of private markets. We combine AI-powered automation with deep regulatory expertise to replace fragmented spreadsheets and manual processes with one integrated platform across the fund lifecycle, purpose-built for private markets heading toward $32 trillion in Assets Under Management.

We've 4x our ARR in 2025, crossed 150 fund managers and 12,000 LPs on the platform, and just closed our $35M Series B in May 2026. We're looking for ambitious people who want real ownership of hard problems, and who care about building infrastructure that actually matters to the people using it.

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At bunch, we're committed to an inclusive environment where diversity is valued and celebrated. We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants.

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Source: Bunch careers (Ashby)

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