Principal Infrastructure Engineer

About The Role


As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer , you will lead efforts to architect, build, and maintain our infrastructure as code (IaC) platform. This critical role demands engineering excellence with a focus on creating scalable, resilient systems that uphold the highest standards of availability and security. You'll be instrumental in designing an extensible infrastructure that empowers our development team through exceptional developer experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our infrastructure supports rapid growth while maintaining operational excellence across our platforms.


Tech Stack

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our primary cloud infrastructure provider
• Kubernetes for orchestrating our containerized microservices
• Golang for most of our backend services and infrastructure tools
• TypeScript and React for our front-end applications, deployed via Vercel
• TimescaleDB for time-series data management and financial transaction history
• GCP Confidential Computing for secure execution environments
• Buildkite for CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• GitHub for version control and collaboration
• Sentry for error tracking and Incident.io for incident management

Requirements

• 5+ years in infrastructure-related software engineering roles
• Strong background in running Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform
• Experience managing processes such as on-call rotations and incident response
• Proficiency with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Sentry, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to diagnose complex system issues
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading or substantially contributing to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliance efforts
• Comfort contributing to the product code base (Golang) as needed
• Familiarity with or interest in using Pulumi to manage declarative infrastructure
• Understanding of private key management and/or cryptography, including key sharding

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