Altruist

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

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Base Salary

$181k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect, deploy, and operate AWS infrastructure for highly available financial services workloads.
  • Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code standards, reusable modules, state management, and code review practices.
  • Lead the EKS/Kubernetes platform strategy, including cluster upgrades, node architecture, Helm governance, service mesh, and autoscaling.
  • Improve CI/CD platforms and self-service deployment capabilities using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or similar tools.
  • Design disaster recovery, cross-region failover, backup automation, high-availability architecture, and DR simulations.
  • Define observability, SLO/SLI, alerting, tracing, incident response, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization strategies.
  • Define AWS security, networking, IAM, encryption, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and regulatory compliance standards.
  • Architect AI/ML infrastructure and lead adoption of AI-driven infrastructure operations and developer productivity tooling.
  • Lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, architecture reviews, technical strategy, documentation, mentoring, and hiring activities.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering experience with deep production AWS expertise.
  • End-to-end ownership of infrastructure initiatives from architecture and implementation through rollout and operations.
  • Expert Terraform skills, including module design, state management, and organization-wide IaC standards.
  • Extensive Kubernetes production experience, preferably with EKS, including cluster lifecycle, multi-tenancy, Helm, and GitOps workflows.
  • Strong Linux systems engineering and advanced Python, Bash, or Go scripting skills.
  • Deep CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
  • Expert cloud networking and security knowledge, including VPC, Transit Gateway, DNS, load balancing, IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, and Secrets Manager.
  • Experience operating observability platforms and database infrastructure at organizational scale.
  • Experience designing disaster recovery, conducting simulations, and building highly available systems.
  • Strong technical communication, architecture documentation, leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred qualifications include financial services or regulated-industry experience, relevant AWS certifications, event streaming, API gateway, AI/ML infrastructure, policy-as-code, FinOps, technical writing, or open-source experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule with three days per week onsite in the Culver City or San Francisco office.
  • Healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans, including HMO and PPO options.
  • 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
  • Professional growth opportunities, an employee mobility program, and an annual learning and development budget.
  • Company perks program with discounts on pet insurance, fitness, mobile phone plans, travel, and other services.
  • Financial guidance program covering debt, spending, saving, planning, and home-purchasing preparation.
  • One month work-from-anywhere policy, subject to country exceptions.
  • Amenity-filled offices in Culver City, San Francisco, and Dallas.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSBashDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonRedisTerraform

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About Altruist

201-500 employees

Altruist builds a custodian and wealth management platform for independent registered investment advisors, combining account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting in one system. The company generates revenue as a brokerage custodian and through advisor software and services. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Culver City, California, it is privately held and serves RIAs across the United States.

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