Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About the role:

As an early member of the team, you’ll get to be a part of shaping and building our infrastructure, developer experience, observability, and security.  This role is great for someone that has a strong foundation in cloud infrastructure but loves working closely with engineering and business stakeholders to tackle a wide range of challenges.

What you'll do:

• Lead optimization efforts for our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) usage, focusing on performance, dev tooling, and cost efficiency.
• Dedicate a significant portion of your time to IT, infrastructure, and cybersecurity work, ensuring the reliability and scalability of our cloud-based services.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and workflows using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD to enhance our development team’s efficiency.
• Manage and deploy Kubernetes, including utilizing Helm charts and Terraform for our GKE-based infrastructure maintenance.
• Contribute to database management and optimization with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.
• Improve our monitoring and observability framework with tools like Datadog for high availability and performance.
• Implement SRE principles to improve reliability, incident response, and automation.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to architect and implement scalable platforms, facilitating continuous delivery and improving developer experience.

What you’ll need:

• 4 years of industry experience in cloud infra, platform eng, devops, SRE, or related ideally in a startup environment (fintech and/or b2b)!
• 3 years of expertise with cloud infrastructure, especially GCP and Kubernetes
• 2 years with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Helm and Terraform
• 1 years of experience with CI/CD tools like CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
• 1 years of database management knowledge, ideally with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability principles and tools, such as Datadog and Prometheus
• A keen interest in SRE practices and platform engineering, with a knack for automating and improving development workflows
• Ability to work independently in a remote, flexible schedule environment, with a self-driven and proactive mindset
• Excitement to take on wide ownership and tackle challenges spanning from infrastructure to DevOps to security to IT and more
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering or similar

Nice to have:

• CI/CD experience (e.g. GitHub actions or CircleCI)
• Observability experience (e.g. Datadog)
• SRE and incident response experience and opinions
• Compliance/Security experience (e.g. SOC2, PCI, vendor security questionnaires)
• Coding abilities

Compensation:

This role has an annual starting salary range of $180,000 - $200,000 equity benefits. Compensation may exceed this range for exceptional, experienced candidates joining above a senior level.