Old Well Labs is a financial intelligence startup in South End, Charlotte building the institutional investment industry’s next generation of analytics tools. Our platform centralizes billions of data points on fund managers globally and leverages AI to bring clarity to complex data.
About the RoleWe are hiring our first Platform Engineer to lead the build-out of platform engineering at OWL. This is a foundational hire who will set the long-term direction for infrastructure, security, and developer enablement while staying deeply hands-on in building it. You will partner with the VP of Engineering, along with product and data teams, to guide platform strategy and establish standards that ensure OWL’s systems scale with the company. Our DevOps model is service-driven: we build reusable tools, patterns, and automation that give engineers autonomy.
What You’ll DoSet Standards and Direction: Work with the VP of Engineering, product, and data teams to define platform engineering practices, architecture, and tooling.
Deliver Self-Service Capabilities: Build Terraform modules, deployment scripts, and CI/CD workflows that developers can use independently.
Lead Infrastructure Strategy: Guide AWS infrastructure design and operations to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
Drive Security and Compliance: Lead SOC 2 readiness and enforce least-privilege access across AWS and databases. Experience with ISO 27001 is also relevant.
Observability and Analytics: Expand monitoring and product analytics with Datadog and PostHog so system health and product usage are visible and actionable.
Languages and Frameworks: Python (Flask, FastAPI, data pipelines), React
Infrastructure and Cloud: AWS (ECS, Fargate, EC2, RDS, Elasticache, VPC, Route53, S3, Step Functions), Docker, Terraform
CI/CD and Quality: GitHub with GitHub Workflows, Sonar
Databases: Postgres, SQL Server
Monitoring and Analytics: Datadog, PostHog
8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering
Proven track record leading platform initiatives across multiple teams
Expertise in AWS, Terraform, Docker, ECS or Fargate
Strong background in compliance-driven environments such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001
Experience building developer platforms that emphasize self-service and autonomy
Experience administering AWS IAM at scale
Experience with database administration, ideally Postgres
Background in application and infrastructure security
Charlotte. We are hybrid (in office Tuesday–Thursday).
CompensationCompetitive annual salary + target equity
At this time, OWL is not able to sponsor employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Benefits100% medical, dental and vision insurance coverage for you
401k
Flexible PTO
Parental Leave
Located in the heart of South End
Bagel Thursdays
Top Skills
What We Do
OId Well Labs (OWL) is an intelligence platform purpose-built to help allocators find, monitor, and connect with the world’s best investors. Our mission is to collect and organize the billions of publicly available data points about investment managers in one easy-to-use platform. With data from thousands of sources across 60+ countries, OWL gives insights into the strategies and activities of the key players in the global investment industry. Check out more at www.oldwell-labs.com
