Senior Systems Engineer

Spreedly; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + Equity

Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits

Open Paid Time Off policy and paid leave for new parents

Monthly home working stipend

$1,000 annual professional development stipend

Job summary

A leading payment technology company is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer focused on AWS infrastructure management. This role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and operational excellence to support a highly available environment. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of cloud systems experience, strong skills in infrastructure as code using Terraform, and expertise in observability tools. The position offers competitive salary and benefits, including flexible work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure or systems engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience in AWS services including ECS and EC2.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Operate and modernize AWS-based infrastructure.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
• Implement observability using Datadog and CloudWatch.

Skills

AWS infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Security and Compliance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Datadog

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Linux systems

Job description

About Us:

Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.

Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.

Product Offering:

Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:

• Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.
• Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.
• Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.
• Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.
• Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.

About the Role:

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will operate as a senior individual contributor with strong ownership across infrastructure reliability, security execution, and operational maturity. This role is hands‑on and execution‑focused, with an emphasis on AWS infrastructure, infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, and secure‑by‑default systems.

You will act as a trusted technical authority within a highly experienced team, bridging Infrastructure and Security, mentoring peers, and proactively communicating across functions. Success in this role requires both tactical execution and end‑to‑end system thinking—leaving the platform better than you found it.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Operations & reliability:
• Operate, scale, and modernize AWS‑based infrastructure supporting highly available, uptime‑driven production systems.
• Design for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and automated recovery across EC2‑ and ECS‑based workloads.Support the organization’s roadmap toward multi‑region, globally distributed infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and related tooling to ensure repeatability, auditability, and resilience.
• Support and evolve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, AWS tooling) with a focus on reliability, speed, and developer autonomy.
• Reduce operational brittleness by creating reusable, well‑documented infrastructure patterns.
• Observability & Incident Response:
• Implement and maintain observability using Datadog, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and related tools.
• Define and monitor SLOs, improve alert quality, and reduce MTTD/MTTR through actionable dashboards and runbooks.
• Participate in and help mature a 24/7 on‑call rotation; confidently troubleshoot and resolve incidents under pressure.
• Security & Compliance:
• Serve as an infrastructure security subject‑matter expert, helping bridge the Infrastructure Engineering and Security teams.
• Implement and operate security controls such as IAM policies, WAFs, DDoS protections, secrets management, and deployment safeguards.
• Support regulated environments and compliance efforts (PCI, SOC 2, or similar).
• Collaboration, Mentorship & Delivery:
• Proactively communicate status, risks, and tradeoffs in a distributed, async‑first environment.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to shared learning across experience levels.
• Own small‑to‑medium scoped projects end‑to‑end: breaking down work, driving execution, and following through to completion.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working with cloud infrastructure or systems engineering in a production environment.
• Deep hands‑on experience operating and scaling production systems in AWS (ECS, EC2, ALB/ELB, ASG, IAM, VPC, Secrets Manager).
• Strong infrastructure‑as‑code experience with Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience supporting highly available, uptime‑sensitive systems with on‑call responsibility.
• Observability expertise using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry.
• Linux systems experience (Debian‑ or RHEL‑based distributions).
• Exposure to or experience with multi‑region cloud environments to support global availability.
• Experience with DevOps and/or GitOps and an understanding of CI/CD methods.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration (Nomad, Docker, etc.)
• Infrastructure security experience (e.g., WAFs, DDoS mitigation, access controls).
• Experience in regulated environments (PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar).
• Proven ability to run projects end‑to‑end and deliver repeatable, maintainable solutions.

Additional Skills We Value:

• Familiarity with Edge CDN‑type services.

We Offer US‑based Employees:

• Competitive salary + Equity
• Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer‑paid options
• Company‑paid Life and Disability insurance
• Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
• Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one‑time accessory reimbursement
• $1,000 annual professional development stipend
• Access to company‑paid professional coaching service
• Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees

We champion the ethical, creative use of AI—if you’re someone who pairs human judgment with modern AI tools to work smarter and drive bigger impact, you’ll thrive here.

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Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.

Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does - handling payment data - finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.

At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment, and we are not set up to support remote employees who reside in New York. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in that country.

We appreciate your interest in our company. Because of the high volume of resume flow, we may only respond to those candidates that we think will be a potential fit.

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