Arta
Senior Platform Engineer
$110K–$205K
Bay Area · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
About the job
Build and operate reliable financial platform systems, including trading, ledgering, billing, backend services, and real-time and batch data pipelines.
What you'll do
- Design financial systems and develop transaction processing, reconciliation, and portfolio state management.
- Build and scale data pipelines, APIs, and backend services; contribute to distributed systems design.
- Improve reliability, observability, and fault tolerance, and integrate ML models into production when needed.
What they ask for
- 5+ years as a backend or systems engineer, with distributed systems experience.
- Experience in at least one of financial systems, data infrastructure, or scalable backend platforms.
- Strong understanding of system design, consistency, and reliability.
- Solid programming skills (Python or similar) and experience with modern infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience with financial primitives, low-latency or high-throughput systems, or data platforms and streaming systems.
- Some familiarity with ML systems.
Pay
$110,000-$205,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Kafka, Kubernetes
AI focus
May interface with AI-powered systems and partner with ML teams to integrate models into production systems as needed; AI is not the core focus.
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