Staff Infrastructure Engineer

SentiLink

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 145,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid group health insurance

401(k) plan with employer match

Flexible paid time off

Regular company-wide in-person events

Home office stipend

Job summary

An innovative identity solutions company located in Austin is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to develop standards and tooling. You'll work closely with engineering teams focusing on improving system reliability and efficiency. The role requires expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and DevOps tooling, while fostering collaboration across teams. The compensation ranges from $145,000 to $250,000 per year, reflecting the depth of experience and responsibility associated with the position.

Qualifications

4+ years of relevant work experience.
Experience with cloud identity and access management.
Experience developing cloud networking infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Construct infrastructure as code ensuring best practices.
Design infrastructure for rapid software development.
Implement monitoring tools and functionalities.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure as code

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

DevOps tooling

Tools

Terraform

Postgres

OpenSearch

Job description

Join to apply for the Infrastructure Engineer (Experienced/Senior+ Levels) role at SentiLink

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.

We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real‑time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world‑class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin.

We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list every year since 2023. We were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.

SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in‑office. We operate as a digital‑first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in‑office by design; for example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.

About The Opportunity

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the development of standards, processes, tooling, and systems that serve as the foundation of the SentiLink platform. We’re looking for someone driven toward improving the reliability and efficiency of our systems, services, and engineering teams. You will work closely with the Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics teams to understand their needs and pain points, and to build systems and tools to improve their velocity, reliability, efficiency, and visibility. The optimal candidate will have a bias toward secure solutions that follow engineering best practice.

Technologies

Python, Aurora PostgreSQL, AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, etc.), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CICD, observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, SumoLogic), OpenSearch, and Linux.

This is a remote, U.S.-based role.

Responsibilities

Construct infrastructure as code. Develop and enforce best practice across configurations while preventing drift between Terraform configurations and infrastructure deployments
Design infrastructure that enables Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics to rapidly perform software development and data processing
Implement monitoring tools, dashboards, and functionalities for a variety of services and operations across SentiLink’s infrastructure and software platform
Design, implement, and maintain scalable DevOps and CI/CD pipelines to automate application deployment, infrastructure provisioning, and system monitoring, ensuring high availability and efficient development workflows
Formulate strategies and execute solutions for cloud identity and access management
Collaborate with the SRE and security teams to maintain secure, up‑to‑date infrastructure in our cloud environment
Supervise and monitor platform costs, working cross‑functionally to keep costs in line with corporate financial expectations
Oversee, develop, and operate Kubernetes and service mesh infrastructure, ensuring smooth performance and reliability
Investigate operational alerts, pinpoint root causes, and compile comprehensive root cause analysis reports. Pursue action items relentlessly until they are thoroughly completed
Conduct in‑depth examinations of database operational issues, actively developing and improving database architecture, schema, and configuration for enhanced performance and reliability

Requirements

4+ years of relevant work experience
Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure, managing infrastructure as code, and cloud identity and access management
Experience developing cloud networking infrastructure, including DNS, CDNs, load balancers, VPCs, subnets, and security groups
Experience with scaling and migrating production systems with little to no downtime
Experience managing observability platforms, building monitoring dashboards, and configuring high‑quality, actionable alerting
Experience working on software delivery pipelines (CI/CD) and DevOps tooling a plus
Background in building secure container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes is a plus
Experience operating enterprise‑size databases. Postgres, Aurora, Redshift, and OpenSearch experience is a plus
Experience with Python or Golang is a plus
Hands on with development and testing of distributed systems at scale is a big plus
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

Salary Range

$145,000 /year – $250,000 /year + equity + benefits

Note: This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels, and the actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, and qualifications.

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