Staff DevOps Engineer - Cloud, Security & Reliability

Superstate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity ownership

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

Professional development and security certification budget

Job summary

A financial technology firm based in New York is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to build and maintain a reliable, scalable infrastructure for financial products. This role requires extensive experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, and a strong focus on security. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to optimize performance and ensure system reliability, with a focus on automation and tooling. We offer competitive compensation, equity ownership, and flexible vacation policies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure experience.
• Deep understanding of security principles and secure infrastructure practices.
• Experience with high-availability systems and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for web applications.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure and improve service reliability.

Skills

AWS cloud services

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Containerization and orchestration (ECS, EKS)

Java, Go, Rust or similar

Security principles

Systems engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Job description

A financial technology firm based in New York is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to build and maintain a reliable, scalable infrastructure for financial products. This role requires extensive experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, and a strong focus on security. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to optimize performance and ensure system reliability, with a focus on automation and tooling. We offer competitive compensation, equity ownership, and flexible vacation policies.