cloud engineer for a banking and lending platform

Salmon is a technology-driven financial company building a banking and lending platform across Southeast Asia, starting in the Philippines. It combines global fintech expertise with local market knowledge to make financial services simple, accessible, and useful. The company has over 7 million app downloads, 2 million monthly active users, 7,000+ partner stores, and has raised over US$310 million. Based in Manila and globally distributed, its team spans more than 45 countries.

• Build, scale, and manage AWS infrastructure supporting Salmon's products
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitLab-CI, and FluxCD v2
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship and support production systems end to end
• Monitor application and infrastructure health and resolve issues to protect production availability
• Automate infrastructure and deployment processes using Terraform, AWS CDK, and Ansible
• Ensure infrastructure and deployments follow security policies and industry best practices
• Ensure the resilience and availability of production systems

• 5+ Years of professional experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, or Software Engineering
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, and Lambda
• Strong command of Infrastructure as Code and containerization/orchestration, including Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes (EKS/ECS)
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Golang, with hands-on CI/CD experience using GitLab, GitLab-CI, and FluxCD v2
• Solid understanding of networking principles and protocols, plus experience with Istio service mesh
• Familiarity with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, AlertManager, and Grafana

• Core collaboration hours are 12:00–6:00 PM Manila time (UTC+8)
• Company-provided tools and equipment
• Medical insurance support for the candidate and their family through co-funding or reimbursement, depending on location and subject to policy limits
• Access to an internal mental health support specialist
• 22 Vacation days, Philippine public holidays, and 15 sick days
• Opportunities to learn and share expertise through internal expert meetups, external conferences, speaking opportunities, and industry publications
• Company-sponsored trips to Manila to meet and work with the team in person
• High-performing teams can earn a dedicated beach house week in Southeast Asia