Senior Distributed Infra Engineer (Payments & Observability)

Revley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Revley is building the operating system for the recurring economy in New York. We are hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (independent contractor with potential to convert to full-time) to own distributed systems, data architecture, and observability that power our payments platform.

You will work directly with the founders and a small senior team on systems that move money for customers daily. This senior, high-ownership role requires designing and operating production infrastructure end-to-end,

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and operating production infrastructure.
• Strong backend engineering skills, with deep experience in Node.js and TypeScript (NestJS or a comparable framework).
• Deep experience with relational databases, including SQL, PostgreSQL, schema design, and query optimization.
• Experience designing distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EventBridge, SQS, ECS, and CloudWatch.
• Working knowledge of queueing, idempotency, retries, and asynchronous processing patterns.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and managing deployment infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently in early-stage or high-velocity environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the event-driven backbone that connects payment flows, webhooks, and asynchronous processing.
• Own database architecture, schema design, and query performance on PostgreSQL for high-throughput transactional workloads.
• Build and tune queueing, retries, idempotency, and scheduling for billing and capture pipelines.
• Stand up observability — metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting — so we catch problems before customers do.
• Design CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure for safe, frequent releases.
• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Vercel, with an eye on cost, scaling, and resilience.
• Make architectural decisions on distributed systems and document them clearly for the team.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

PostgreSQL

SQL

Distributed systems

Event-driven

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

On-call

Tools

GitHub

Sentry

Linear

CloudWatch

EventBridge

SQS

ECS

Job description

Revley is building the operating system for the recurring economy in New York. We are hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (independent contractor with potential to convert to full-time) to own distributed systems, data architecture, and observability that power our payments platform.

You will work directly with the founders and a small senior team on systems that move money for customers daily. This senior, high-ownership role requires designing and operating production infrastructure end-to-end,