5 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, operate, and evolve production AWS infrastructure for high-availability financial services workloads.
- Own Terraform infrastructure-as-code standards, reusable modules, state management practices, and code review processes.
- Lead the Kubernetes/EKS platform strategy, including cluster upgrades, node architecture, Helm governance, GitOps, service mesh evolution, and autoscaling.
- Improve CI/CD platforms and enable safe, fast, self-service deployments for application engineering teams.
- Design disaster recovery, cross-region failover, backup automation, high-availability architecture, and DR simulation exercises.
- Define platform observability using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch, including SLO/SLI, alerting, and tracing standards.
- Serve as a senior on-call escalation point, lead critical incident root-cause analysis, and drive systemic remediation.
- Own capacity planning, resource saturation reviews, FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and vendor spend governance.
- Define AWS security, IAM, encryption, secrets management, networking, load balancing, CDN, DNS, compliance, and vulnerability remediation standards.
- Architect AI/ML infrastructure and govern AI-powered developer tools, including GPU compute, SageMaker, Bedrock, vector databases, and AIOps automation.
- Build internal platforms and golden paths that improve developer productivity and reduce operational toil.
- Lead cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, architecture reviews, technical strategy, documentation, hiring, mentoring, and engineering-wide planning.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of hands-on cloud infrastructure engineering experience with deep production AWS expertise.
- End-to-end ownership of infrastructure initiatives from architecture and design through rollout and operations.
- Expert Terraform proficiency, including module design, state management, and IaC standards.
- Extensive Kubernetes production experience at scale, preferably with EKS, including cluster lifecycle management, multi-tenancy, Helm, and GitOps.
- Strong Linux systems engineering and advanced scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Deep experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Jenkins.
- Advanced cloud networking and security knowledge, including VPC, Transit Gateway, DNS, load balancing, IAM, KMS, WAF, GuardDuty, and Secrets Manager.
- Experience operating observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenSearch/ELK at organizational scale.
- Strong database infrastructure and data-layer architecture experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS, ElastiCache/Redis, OpenSearch, or DynamoDB.
- Experience designing disaster recovery, conducting DR simulations, and building highly available mission-critical systems.
- Strong technical communication, architecture documentation, leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include 7+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience and 3+ years at a senior or staff level.
- Preferred qualifications include financial services or regulated-industry experience, relevant AWS certifications, Amazon MSK/Kafka, API gateways, AI/ML infrastructure, policy as code, FinOps, technical writing, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with three days per week onsite in the San Francisco Financial District office.
- Competitive pay and equity for eligible positions.
- Premium HMO and PPO healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans.
- 401(k) savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Professional development 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 and counseling program.
- One month work-from-anywhere policy, except in certain countries.
- Amenity-filled offices in Culver City, San Francisco, and Dallas.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaAWSBashDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPrometheusPythonRedisTerraformVault
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About Altruist
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.