Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Dakota; Donostia/San Sebastián; A distancia; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Dakota is seeking a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to lead the architecture and maintenance of their infrastructure as code platform. The role involves creating scalable, resilient systems on GCP, utilizing Kubernetes, and ensuring operational excellence. Competitive salary and fully remote working environment are offered, along with a collaborative team atmosphere.

Servicios

Competitive salary and equity

Fully remote working environment

Coworking space monthly stipend

Home office equipment stipend

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Formación

• 5+ years in infrastructure-related software engineering roles.
• Strong background in managing Kubernetes on GCP.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.

Responsabilidades

• Lead architecting, building, and maintaining the infrastructure as code platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for operational excellence.
• Ensure security and availability of our systems.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Monitoring and alerting tools

Herramientas

Grafana

Sentry

GitHub

Buildkite

TypeScript

React

Pulumi

Descripción del empleo

At Dakota, we're building the next-generation global banking platform. Our mission is to empower businesses to operate globally by combining the best of crypto and traditional finance. Founded in 2024, Dakota already serves hundreds of customers and processes billions in annualized transaction volume.

From day one, Dakota has been a fully remote company. Our lean but experienced team is distributed across North America and Europe, united by a deep sense of ownership, a relentless focus on our customers, and a commitment to expanding economic freedom worldwide.

Please note : Dakota is a remote-only, equal-opportunity employer. At this time, we are able to hire within the U.S. and most EU time zones.

About the Role

As Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Dakota, you will lead efforts to architect, build, and maintain our infrastructure as code (IaC) platform. This critical role demands engineering excellence with a focus on creating scalable, resilient systems that uphold the highest standards of availability and security. You'll be instrumental in designing an extensible infrastructure that empowers our development team through exceptional developer experience. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our infrastructure supports our rapid growth while maintaining operational excellence across our platforms.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as our primary cloud infrastructure provider

Kubernetes for orchestrating our containerized microservices

Golang for most of our backend services and infrastructure tools

TypeScript and React for our front-end applications, deployed via Vercel

TimescaleDB for time-series data management and financial transaction history

GCP Confidential Computing for secure execution environments

Buildkite for CI / CD pipelines and deployment automation

GitHub for version control and collaboration

Sentry for error tracking and Incident.io for incident management

Requirements

5+ years in infrastructure-related software engineering roles

Strong background in running Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform

Experience managing processes such as on-call rotations and incident response

Proficiency with monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Sentry, etc.)

Experience with CI / CD pipelines and deployment automation

Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to diagnose complex system issues

Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams

Located in a time zone between UTC-7 and UTC+1

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading or substantially contributing to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliance efforts

Comfort contributing to the product code base (Golang) as needed

Familiarity with or interest in using Pulumi to manage declarative infrastructure

Understanding of private key management and / or cryptography, including key sharding

What We Offer

Engaging problems that increase economic freedom globally

A collaborative environment with a high-caliber team from Coinbase, Anchorage, Messari, Square, Airbnb, and more

Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth fintech

Fully remote working environment

Coworking space monthly stipend

Home office equipment stipend

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Regular team events and off-sites

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