• Design and develop a Go-based control plane powering the Kubernetes lifecycle platform • Manage hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across many locations • Implement cluster registry and state model for sites, hardware types, clusters, nodes, capacity, and health • Establish bootstrap workflows for newly booted bare-metal nodes into Kubernetes-ready nodes • Ensure control-plane reliability using etcd or equivalent strongly consistent state • Develop local site agents that remain operational during temporary central-control-plane outages • Create integration contracts with OS image layer and workload orchestration layer

• Build CI/CD pipelines that build multiple Linux OS images in parallel • AWS-based image builder infrastructure for x86 and ARM64 images • PXE boot infrastructure so bare-metal servers can install themselves • DHCP and TFTP configuration for boot-time server identification • Harbor or OCI registry workflows for storing, tagging, promoting, and mirroring images • Cosign signing, SBOM generation, and vulnerability scan gates • Runbooks for bringing up new data-center sites and debugging failed boots or failed image builds

Title: Platform Engineer IV Job Description: Type: Contract Category: Development Industry: Financial Services Workplace Type: Remote Reference ID: JN -042026-106538 Description: Remote Our client seeks a Platform Engineer IV to build and maintain scalable Java and Angular services with Spring Boot for a high-availability platform. The role focuses on platform uptime, performance, stability, and public API development while collaborating across data science, operations, and database teams. Experience with big data tooling, cloud infrastructure, and automation will support reliable deployments and observability at scale. Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance. Rate: $85.00 to $90.00/hr. w2 JN -042026-106538 #LI-JS1 Responsibilities: - Maintain platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability. - Design, guide, and challenge system architecture and design while mentoring peers. - Develop and maintain a public API. - Deliver robust and extensible solutions from feature requests. - Work with big data technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark. - Collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver value-added features. - Partner with DBAs to create ETL and Data Warehouse systems. - Collaborate with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability. - Monitor all production systems related to the platform. - Build tools and processes for analytics, monitoring, machine learning, and data warehousing platforms. - Define and implement strategies from networking and backups to fog computing configuration and deployments. - Provision, configure, maintain, back up, and monitor onsite and cloud server resources. - Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal systems. - Continuously improve alerting and monitoring systems. Experience Requirements: - 5 to 20 years of software and systems development experience. - Strong software development background with experience building software systems. - Java with Spring Boot for backend services. - Angular for front-end development. - Working knowledge of at least one among PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, or Go. - Strong Linux administration experience. - Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, or Google Cloud. - Strong understanding of IT security best practices. - Experience with automation and configuration tools such as Puppet or Ansible. - Experience with container orchestration such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes. - Understanding of computer networks. - Experience operating and administering systems at production scale. - AWS (preferred). - Kafka (preferred). - Python (preferred). Recruitment Transparency Notice Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (noreply@eliassen.com, 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. 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About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide - including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more - with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you're ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you're motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you "get stuff done" end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you'll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let's build what's next. About the Team The Notification Platform engineering team at Airwallex builds and operates the core infrastructure that powers customer and internal communications across the company. The team owns the platform responsible for delivering notifications reliably, at scale, and across multiple channels, enabling product teams to engage users with the right message at the right time. As a centralized platform team, Notification Platform bridges the gap between business needs and architectural excellence. The team builds and evolves a cloud-native platform using modern technologies and design patterns, including reactive programming, workflow orchestration, distributed systems, and advanced gateway integrations. The platform supports complex, organization-wide communication use cases and provides the foundations that product teams rely on to deliver critical messaging experiences. The team operates a highly I/O-intensive and mission-critical system that serves the entire organization. This requires strong engineering craftsmanship, operational discipline, and a continuous innovation mindset. In addition to building and running core platform capabilities, the team also leads comprehensive evaluations of strategic solutions that shape notification architecture and platform direction across Airwallex. What you'll do As a software engineer, you will contribute to building and operating backend services within the issuing platform. You will work closely with and get to hone your craft from more senior engineers to design, implement, test, and run production systems at scale. This role is based in Singapore. Responsibilities: - Design, develop & maintain a resilient, high-throughput, low-latency Notification Platform to deliver messages (SMS, Email, Push) to our customers worldwide. - Maintain a high architecture standard & craftsmanship through an Event Driven Architecture requiring high scalability, traceability & automation. - Identify new opportunities to engage adopters through delightful adoption experience and extension over various channels, such as WhatsApp and inbox notifications. - Engage with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across Airwallex's global offices, fostering effective communication through fast pace business transformation & providing data insights. - Troubleshoot production issues across different levels of the stack. - You'll work hand-in-hand with the Issuing Platform team (powering Airwallex Cards & Transactions) as one of the primary consumers of your Platform. Who you are We're looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory. Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor degree or above in computer science or engineering related majors with sophisticated level knowledge in designing and delivering of Enterprise Grade software systems. - Experienced in Software Engineering with strong capabilities in modern programming languages like Java, Python or Go. - 3+ years of experience in modern engineering practices focused on large-scale, low-latency, high-throughput systems. - Experienced in building distributed systems using middleware (like Kafka, PostgreSQL) and have hands on experience on managing, maintaining and tuning event pipeline. - Familiar with at least one : Java memory management, multi-threading, high concurrency, IO / NIO, network communication, etc. Preferred qualifications: - Wider interest beyond backend technologies, including design systems, search & AI technologies, gateway technologies and data analytics. - Focus on automating tasks to concentrate on high-impact activities and are proactive in reducing technical debt. - Experience with distributed databases or storage systems like PostgreSQL /Redis /NoSQL. - Proficient in messaging patterns and resilience. - Hands-on knowledge with full implementation of Kafka. Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don't regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.