Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the platform’s reliability posture, including observability, incident response, SLOs, and on-call practices.
- Build advanced release pipeline capabilities such as merge queues, feature-flag tooling, and per-domain release gates.
- Own the cloud platform, Pulumi modules, AWS account structure, identity, networking, and developer tooling.
- Drive security and compliance efforts, including Vanta remediation, SOC 1/2 readiness, vulnerability scanning, secrets and key management, and hardening.
- Improve on-call tooling, runbooks, rotations, and postmortems while participating in the infrastructure on-call rotation.
- Partner with product engineering teams to build abstractions that improve development speed and safety.
- Promote operational excellence through code reviews, design discussions, mentorship, and production standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including significant infrastructure, platform, or reliability-focused production work.
- Deep fluency with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, infrastructure as code such as Pulumi or Terraform, and modern release pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks, plus experience defining SLOs, running postmortems, and improving on-call operations.
- Experience owning systems end to end, from infrastructure provisioning through operational recovery runbooks.
- Experience working with small, fast-moving engineering teams and improving their speed and reliability.
- A security mindset and familiarity with SOC 2, Vanta, secrets management, key rotation, and least-privilege access are preferred.
- Excellent communication skills, empathy, integrity, and calmness under pressure are expected.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 401(k)
- Premium health, dental, and vision insurance
- Significant equity for this early hire
- Recruitment process includes an onsite presentation
Tech Stack
About ModernFi
ModernFi helps financial institutions of all sizes grow, retain, and manage their deposits. Through ModernFi's deposit network, banks and credit unions can sweep funds, source deposits, and provide additional security to depositors. ModernFi’s solutions help institutions attract and retain large-value depositors, driving growth and increasing balance sheet stability. ModernFi is backed by Canapi Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Remarkable Ventures, and leading banks Huntington National Bank, First Horizon, and Regions. ModernFi, Inc., together with its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, including ModernFi Deposit Services LLC, ModernFi CUSO LLC, and NBID LLC, are not banks or credit unions. ModernFi does not accept deposits, and deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured depository institution, not ModernFi. Deposit placement through ModernFi is subject to the terms, conditions, and disclosures in applicable agreements. A list identifying network banks can be found at https://www.nbid.com/bank-list. A list identifying network credit unions can be found at https://www.modernfi.com/credit-union-list.