Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer

The role

You will own and scale the foundation of the banking platform. You will build tooling and infrastructure using AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes to ensure systems are reliable, secure, and fast.

What you will do

• Influence and implement the next generation of database, real-time workflow, and container orchestration infrastructure
• Scale and evolve Kubernetes (EKS) platform, CockroachDB clusters, Kafka (MSK), Temporal workflows, and ElastiCache Redis
• Work across engineering to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies
• Build and maintain abstractions within Terraform and Pulumi
• Improve the speed and reliability of the CI/CD pipeline
• Find solutions to scaling, performance, and low-latency problems

Required qualifications

• 2-3+ years of experience shipping high-quality infrastructure for critical, high-availability systems
• Production experience in AWS (EKS, ALB, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, WAF, VPC networking)
• Proficiency in TypeScript or another object-oriented language
• An ability to think through internal engineering requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly unblock teams

Nice to have

• Large-scale distributed SQL database administration (e.g. CockroachDB, PostgreSQL)
• Real-time workflow and queue systems (e.g. Temporal)
• Container orchestration and service infrastructure (Kubernetes/EKS, load balancing, ingress, service mesh)

Benefits

• Opportunity for high growth
• High autonomy + ownership culture
• Comprehensive health + benefits plan
• Working out of our downtown San Francisco office space
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Slash is building the future of business banking by creating financial infrastructure tailored to how businesses operate. Headquartered in San Francisco, it is a fast growing fintech that powers over ten billion dollars a year in business purchasing.