Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Modern Treasury8 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture for AWS infrastructure, container orchestration, and CI/CD supporting scalable payment systems.
- Standardize infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code for high-volume ledger and transaction platforms.
- Reduce operational overhead through tooling, streamlined workflows, and engineering standards.
- Optimize performance, reliability, and observability across real-time and payment-rail infrastructure.
- Define service ownership and operational models across platform and product teams.
- Contribute to infrastructure and security strategy for new payment rails, FBO structures, stablecoin integrations, and compliance-focused features.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure engineering.
- Track record of setting technical direction without direct authority and building internal platforms that abstract complexity for product teams.
- Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems and AWS infrastructure at scale.
- Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar tools, CI/CD systems and automation pipelines, and Docker-based containerized environments.
- Experience with observability, production performance tuning, application and product security, and scaling high-volume workloads.
- Experience defining reliability standards and operational maturity models.
- Preferred experience architecting infrastructure for multiple payment rails, scaling high-volume financial or transactional systems, understanding ACH, wires, RTP, and cards, and familiarity with security and risk standards for money movement.
- Ability to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term infrastructure strategy.
Benefits
- Work location options include San Francisco, New York, or remote for candidates in the listed U.S. states.
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About Modern Treasury
Modern Treasury builds a payment operations platform and APIs used by businesses and financial institutions to move money and reconcile flows. Products include bank integrations, virtual accounts, ledgers, compliance, and reporting, supporting fiat and stablecoin transactions via a single API. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company says it has powered over $400 billion in payments.