Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

About IEX

At IEX, we’re passionate about building technology that moves industries forward. Our story began when we built a stock exchange designed to deliver high-performance results for all investors. Our belief is that technology should level the playing field so that opportunity is equitable. We are applying what we learned from building a high-performance stock exchange to build technology that solves for complexity and accelerates growth in other areas. We aspire to build a trusted, disciplined, and diversified business. Our goal is to build transformative technology without ever compromising our integrity - and we’re just getting started!

About the Role

IEX is looking for a Platform Engineer, Infrastructure to design, build, and operate our internal infrastructure platforms, including Azure cloud services, Kubernetes, storage, virtualization, and Linux systems. This role owns projects end to end and plays a key part in ensuring our infrastructure is scalable, reliable, and aligned with our engineering needs.

You are someone who thrives in a collaborative environment but is equally comfortable working independently. You enjoy solving complex problems, learning new technologies, and building tooling that makes engineering teams more productive. Above all, if you are passionate about our mission of driving fairness and transparency on Wall Street, we’d love to meet you.

What You'll Do

• Build, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure in Azure using Terraform

• Design and support OS deployment infrastructure for both bare metal and containerized environments

• Contribute to Kubernetes efforts, including supporting a new distributed computing POC and guiding the team on best practices

• Improve and maintain configuration management and infrastructure tooling

• Develop monitoring, observability, and reporting systems (Prometheus, Victor Metrics, ELK, etc.)

• Create clear, reproducible documentation for infrastructure and operational processes

• Support administration of user accounts, entitlements, and platform-level tooling

• Partner with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure is reliable, secure, and scalable

Your Background

• Hands-on experience building infrastructure in Azure using Terraform

• Solid Linux fundamentals and experience with shell scripting

• Programming fundamentals in Python, Go, or Rust

• Kubernetes experience (both managed and on-prem preferred)

• Experience with CI/CD and SDLC practices (Azure DevOps, GitHub, or GitLab)

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, Graylog, or Nagios

• Exposure to infrastructure lifecycle management and operational tooling

• Nice to have: PostgreSQL database experience, distributed systems knowledge, or hardware management experience

• Bachelor’s degree is a plus but not required

About You

• Strategic but willing to dive into the weeds

• Strong problem-solver and critical thinker

• Collaborative and a strong partner to engineering teams

• Self-starter who is eager to learn and adopt new technologies

• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Why you should apply

• Comprehensive Benefits

• Unlimited PTO

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision

• New hire stock equity (RSUs)

• 401K employer match

• OneMedical membership

• 16 weeks paid parental leave

• Flexible workplace

• Employer charity match

• Learning stipend

• Commuter benefits

• Jump Start onboarding program

• Internal mentor program cross-departmentally

• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Here at IEX, we are dedicated to an inclusive workplace and culture. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. This policy not only complies with all applicable

Our job titles may span more than one career level. The starting annual base pay is between $200,000 and $225,000 for this NY-based position. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The annual base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for bonus and equity.