Infrastructure Engineer (Experienced/Senior+ Levels)

Join to apply for the Infrastructure Engineer (Experienced/Senior+ Levels) role at SentiLinkSentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We're building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.We've seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin.We've earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech50 list every year since 2023. We were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you're located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design; for example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.About The OpportunityAs a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be responsible for the development of standards, processes, tooling, and systems that serve as the foundation of the SentiLink platform. We're looking for someone driven toward improving the reliability and efficiency of our systems, services, and engineering teams. You will work closely with the Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics teams to understand their needs and pain points, and to build systems and tools to improve their velocity, reliability, efficiency, and visibility. The optimal candidate will have a bias toward secure solutions that follow engineering best practice.TechnologiesPython, Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, etc.), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CICD, observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, SumoLogic), OpenSearch, and Linux.This is a remote, U.S.-based role.ResponsibilitiesConstruct infrastructure as code. Develop and enforce best practice across configurations while preventing drift between Terraform configurations and infrastructure deploymentsDesign infrastructure that enables Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to rapidly perform software development and data processingImplement monitoring tools, dashboards, and functionalities for a variety of services and operations across SentiLink's infrastructure and software platformDesign, implement, and maintain scalable DevOps and CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and system monitoring, ensuring high availability and efficient development workflowsFormulate strategies and execute solutions for cloud identity and access managementCollaborate with the SRE and security teams to maintain secure, up-to-date infrastructure in our cloud environmentSupervise and monitor platform costs, working cross-functionally to keep costs in line with corporate financial expectationsOversee, develop, and operate Kubernetes and service mesh infrastructure, ensuring smooth performance and reliabilityInvestigate operational alerts, pinpoint root causes, and compile comprehensive root cause analysis reports. Pursue action items relentlessly until they are thoroughly completedConduct in-depth examinations of database operational issues, actively developing and improving database architecture, schema, and configuration for enhanced performance and reliabilityRequirements4+ years of relevant work experienceFamiliarity with AWS cloud infrastructure, managing infrastructure as code, and cloud identity and access managementExperience developing cloud networking infrastructure, including DNS, CDNs, load balancers, VPCs, subnets, and security groupsExperience with scaling and migrating production systems with little to no downtimeExperience managing observability platforms, building monitoring dashboards, and configuring high-quality, actionable alertingExperience working on software delivery pipelines (CI/CD) and DevOps tooling a plusBackground in building secure container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes is a plusExperience operating enterprise-size databases. Postgres, Aurora, Redshift, and OpenSearch experience is a plusExperience with Python or Golang is a plusHands on with development and testing of distributed systems at scale is a big plusCandidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United StatesSalary Range$145,000/year – $250,000/year + equity + benefitsNote: This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels, and the actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, and qualifications.PerksEmployer-paid group health insurance for you and your dependents401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non U.S.-based roles)Flexible paid time offRegular company-wide in-person eventsHome office stipend, and more!Corporate ValuesFollow ThroughDeep UnderstandingWhatever It TakesDo Something SmartJ-18808-Ljbffr