Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer
Slash Financial6 months ago
Base Salary
$400k - $700k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the infrastructure roadmap and own key decisions involving performance, observability, security, and deployment.
- Scale and evolve Kubernetes/EKS, CockroachDB, Kafka/MSK, Temporal, and ElastiCache Redis infrastructure.
- Build and maintain Terraform and Pulumi abstractions to simplify architecture and increase product-team ownership.
- Introduce and scale cloud-native infrastructure including load balancing, web application firewalls, DNS, search, object storage, and hosting services.
- Improve the speed and reliability of the CI/CD pipeline.
- Solve scaling, performance, and low-latency challenges across a monolithic deployment serving burst financial traffic.
Requirements
- At least 2–3+ years of experience shipping high-quality infrastructure for critical, high-availability systems.
- Production experience with AWS, including EKS, ALB, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, WAF, and VPC networking.
- Proficiency in TypeScript or another object-oriented language.
- Deep experience in at least one of large-scale distributed SQL database administration, real-time workflow and queue systems, or container orchestration and service infrastructure.
- Ability to understand internal engineering requirements and develop high-impact solutions that unblock teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and benefits plan
- Downtown San Francisco office-based work arrangement
- Unlimited PTO
- High autonomy and ownership culture
Tech Stack
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About Slash Financial
Slash Financial builds a business banking platform for high-spend companies, combining virtual cards, deposit accounts, bill pay, and accounting automation, with features like stablecoin support. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held, YC-backed company powers over $10B in annual transactions for thousands of U.S. businesses.