Principal Platform Engineer - Financial Cloud

About This Role

We are building the next-generation Financial Cloud platform, enabling Bybit to deploy and operate regulated financial services across 50+ global sites, each subject to different compliance requirements (EU MiCA, APAC licenses, etc.). Each site is a unique combination of business modules, infrastructure configurations, and compliance controls — managed as versioned, reproducible units.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer for the Financial Cloud Toolchain, you will drive the end-to-end developer experience and deployment automation for this multi-site platform. You will design and build systems that ensure every deployment is reproducible, every dependency is traceable, and every site automatically and safely converges to its declared state.

What You'll Do

Build & Release Engineering (40%)

Design and implement hermetic, deterministic build pipelines that produce reproducible artifacts for all platform modules

Build and maintain a content-addressable artifact registry with full provenance capabilities (SLSA L3+)

Implement dependency graph analysis tooling to compute build/deploy blast radius for every change

Own the Version Set model: define, validate, and promote locked module-version combinations ("Manifests") through environment stages

Enforce semantic versioning governance and automated compatibility verification across 50+ independently versioned modules

Multi-Site Deployment Orchestration (30%)

Design a GitOps-based deployment engine that reconciles each site to its target Manifest state

Build progressive rollout capabilities: canary → regional → global, with automatic rollback on SLO violations

Implement site-aware configuration rendering: given a site's Manifest + region + compliance tier, produce the complete deployable state

Create an automated upgrade plan generator: compute safe upgrade paths based on dependency ordering and compatibility constraints

Operate and evolve the Financial Cloud configuration center and module selection center

Internal Developer Platform (20%)

Build self-service workflows for module teams: onboard new modules, publish versions, request promotion to production Manifests

Provide real-time visibility: cross-site version drift, deployment health, dependency freshness, compliance patch coverage

Design the "Module → Manifest" pipeline: from module selection to validated Manifest generation in ≤30 minutes

Integrate with internal CI systems to provide selective test execution based on dependency graph analysis

Reliability & Compliance Automation (10%)

Automate compliance evidence generation for regulated deployments (audit trails, SBOMs, change records)

Design cold-start orchestration that automatically derives correct startup ordering from the dependency graph

Build chaos testing frameworks to validate site-level DR and failover under real module compositions

Ensure Phase 1 infrastructure deployment automation ≥95%, Phase 2 data layer ≥90%, Phase 3 business applications ≥90%

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What We're Looking For

Must-Have

8+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure toolchain development, serving 500+ services or 100+ engineers

Deep hands-on experience with build systems — you've designed or operated them, not just consumed them

Track record of building dependency graph tooling — static analysis, runtime tracing, or both — for impact analysis and selective testing

Experience designing and operating version governance systems: BOM/Manifest models, compatibility matrices, constraint solving

Production GitOps deployment experience spanning multi-cluster / multi-region environments

Solid Kubernetes expertise: custom Controllers, Operators, CRDs for platform automation

Artifact management and supply chain security experience: content-addressable storage, SLSA attestation, SBOM generation, artifact signing

Strong Plus

Experience building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with self-service module onboarding and promotion workflows

Large-scale monorepo governance: code ownership, visibility boundaries, build graph optimization

Financial or regulated industry experience: understanding of compliance-as-code, audit automation, multi-jurisdictional requirements

Multi-site / multi-tenant SaaS platform experience where each site has a different module composition

Familiarity with constraint solvers or package manager dependency resolution algorithms (SAT solvers, version unification)

Cryptocurrency / fintech platform experience, especially exchange or trading infrastructure

Nice-to-Have

Toolchain development experience in Rust, Go, or Python

Familiarity with Terraform / Pulumi infrastructure-as-code

Experience with OPA / Rego for policy-as-code in deployment pipelines

Experience operating platforms across China / APAC / EU regions with understanding of data residency requirements