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 25 global investment banks and 135 asset managers representing $40 trillion in AUM. 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
Azure cloud infrastructure
Experience with system monitoring and alerting. Data-driven system improvements using DataDog and/or Grafana
Experience supporting, configuring, deploying RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
Experience with CI/CD tools: Github Actions, ArgoCD or Harness
Experience supporting customer-facing web-delivered software
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 (28 days including 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
Hybrid work environment (initially remote until office setup is complete)
Education reimbursement
Continuous learning opportunities
Employee referral bonus
Parental leave
CMG embraces our ongoing commitment to building a culture reflecting the people, perspectives, and passions it represents. We will accept nothing less than equity, inclusion, and belonging for all. With the only constant in life being change, we will always listen, learn, and improve for the betterment of our teams, customers, and communities. CMG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.