Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer
Own and scale the foundation of Slash's fast-growing banking platform across AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, databases, workflow systems, and deployment infrastructure. Define the infrastructure roadmap and make critical decisions around performance, observability, security, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Influence and implement the next generation of database, real-time workflow, and container orchestration infrastructure.
- Scale and evolve Kubernetes (EKS), CockroachDB, Kafka (MSK), Temporal, and ElastiCache Redis through hypergrowth.
- Introduce and scale cloud-native best practices across engineering using AWS ALB, WAF, Route 53, OpenSearch, S3, and Vercel.
- Build and maintain Terraform and Pulumi abstractions to simplify architecture and increase engineering velocity.
- Improve the speed and reliability of the CI/CD pipeline.
- Solve scaling, performance, and low-latency challenges across a monolithic deployment serving burst financial traffic.
Requirements
- 2-3+ years of experience shipping high-quality infrastructure for critical, high-availability systems.
- Production experience with AWS, including EKS, ALB, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, WAF, and VPC networking.
- Proficiency in TypeScript or another object-oriented language.
- Ability to analyze internal engineering requirements and develop high-impact solutions that unblock teams.
- Deep experience in large-scale distributed SQL database administration, real-time workflow and queue systems, or container orchestration and service infrastructure.
Benefits
- Opportunity for high growth
- High autonomy and ownership culture
- Comprehensive health and benefits plan
- Downtown San Francisco office space
- Unlimited PTO