Senior Software Engineer, DevOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the infrastructure utilized for the end-to-end execution, delivery, and monitoring of software.

• Acquire knowledge about the entire infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

• Assist in designing and constructing a proactive development environment.

• Enhance monitoring and alerting systems for issues that affect payment processes.

• Fortify and evaluate the disaster recovery and backup strategies.

• Streamline the production of compliance documentation, including access reviews, change logs, and audit trails.

• Manage and advance Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS using AWS CDK, Helm, and kubectl.

• Develop and refine deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions.

• Write and deploy production code, infrastructure as code, internal tooling, and changes to application services.

• Oversee New Relic observability, which includes dashboards, alerting, and SLOs for essential payment flows.

• Operate and scale CloudAMQP, MongoDB Atlas, and PostgreSQL.

• Handle secrets, access controls, and identity infrastructure management.

• Design systems for high availability and disaster recovery.

• Lead incident responses and conduct postmortems.

• Optimize costs and performance on AWS.

• Collaborate with engineering and compliance teams on security measures and audit preparedness.

• Report directly to the security and infrastructure lead.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient programming skills in at least one general-purpose language, preferably Java or Kotlin.

• Proven experience in shipping and reviewing production-ready code.

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.

• Strong expertise in managing production systems on AWS.

• Proficient in operating Kubernetes in a production environment.

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like AWS CDK or Terraform and Helm.

• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as New Relic.

• Understanding of least-privilege access, secrets management, and network security principles.

• Willingness to participate in on-call duties and incident response.

• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote startup environment with high autonomy and ambiguity.

• Strong written communication skills.

• Professional proficiency in English is required.

• Must have authorization to work in the country of residence.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• A background check will be required upon offer.

• Preferred: experience in fintech, payments, or regulated environments.

• Preferred: familiarity with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit processes.

• Preferred: experience with Spring Boot, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, or Keycloak.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits may include health coverage.

• Paid time off and holidays.

• Home office or equipment allowance.

• Professional development budget.

• Opportunities for in-person team offsites.

• Employment through an employer of record or contractor engagement for candidates outside the US, with compensation and benefits aligned with local laws and market standards.