About the Role:

As an early member of the team, you’ll play a key role in shaping and building our infrastructure, developer experience, observability, and security. This position is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud infrastructure who enjoys working closely with engineering and business stakeholders to address a wide range of challenges.

What You'll Do:

• Lead optimization efforts for our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) usage, focusing on performance, development tooling, and cost efficiency.
• Allocate a significant portion of your time to IT, infrastructure, and cybersecurity tasks to ensure 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 the development team’s efficiency.
• Manage and deploy Kubernetes, utilizing Helm charts and Terraform for GKE-based infrastructure maintenance.
• Contribute to database management and optimization with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.
• Enhance 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 the developer experience.

What You’ll Need:

• 4+ years of industry experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or related fields, ideally in a fintech startup environment.
• 3+ years of expertise with cloud infrastructure, especially GCP and Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of experience 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 experience, ideally with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of monitoring and observability principles and tools, such as Datadog and Prometheus.
• A knack for streamlining development workflows and a keen interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and platform engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to be resourceful and thrive in dynamic, rapidly evolving environments.
• Enthusiasm for taking on wide-ranging ownership and tackling challenges spanning infrastructure, DevOps, security, IT, and more.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or a similar field.

Nice to Have:

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

Compensation:

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

Benefits & Perks:

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible and remote work culture
• Competitive compensation and equity
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Lunch & commute reimbursement when working in the NYC office located near Union Square
• $500 home office setup reimbursement
• $2500 annual growth and development stipend
• $50 monthly food delivery gift card
• 401k
• Brex company card
• HSA/FSA
• WeWork membership
• ERG groups (e.g., LGBTQIA+, Women)
• Employee Referral Program
• Team building events