Principal Platform Engineer - Financial Cloud

As a Principal Platform Engineer at Bybit, you will drive the end-to-end developer experience and deployment automation for the next-generation Financial Cloud platform. This platform enables Bybit to deploy and operate regulated financial services across 50+ global sites, each subject to different compliance requirements (EU MiCA, APAC licenses, and others). 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

• 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 and 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
• Design a GitOps-based deployment engine that reconciles each site to its target Manifest state
• Build progressive rollout capabilities: canary, regional, and global, with automatic rollback on SLO violations
• Implement site-aware configuration rendering: given a site's Manifest, region, and 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
• Build self-service workflows for module teams: onboard new modules, publish versions, and request promotion to production Manifests
• Provide real-time visibility: cross-site version drift, deployment health, dependency freshness, and compliance patch coverage
• Design the "Module to Manifest" pipeline: from module selection to validated Manifest generation in 30 minutes or less
• Integrate with internal CI systems to provide selective test execution based on dependency graph analysis
• 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 disaster recovery and failover under real module compositions
• Ensure Phase 1 infrastructure deployment automation reaches 95%, Phase 2 data layer reaches 90%, and Phase 3 business applications reaches 90%

What you bring

• 8+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure toolchain development, serving 500+ services or 100+ engineers
• Deep hands-on experience with build systems: you have designed or operated them, not just consumed them
• A 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, and constraint solving
• Production GitOps deployment experience spanning multi-cluster and multi-region environments
• Solid Kubernetes expertise: custom Controllers, Operators, and CRDs for platform automation
• Artifact management and supply chain security experience: content-addressable storage, SLSA attestation, SBOM generation, and 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, and build graph optimization
• Financial or regulated industry experience: understanding of compliance-as-code, audit automation, and multi-jurisdictional requirements
• Multi-site or 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 or fintech platform experience, especially exchange or trading infrastructure

Nice to have

• Toolchain development experience in Rust, Go, or Python
• Familiarity with Terraform or Pulumi infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with OPA and Rego for policy-as-code in deployment pipelines
• Experience operating platforms across China, APAC, or EU regions with understanding of data residency requirements

What we offer

• Study Growth Fund to support your professional development and continuous learning
• Internal Events: regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation
• Global Collaboration as part of a diverse, international team working alongside colleagues from around the world
• Career Advancement: access to opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company
• Internal Mobility: grow with us through internal job opportunities to help build your career path

About Bybit

Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. The company delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3, supported by world-class technology, 24/7 multilingual customer service, and a global team of ambitious builders and innovators.