Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Astra, a company building mission-critical infrastructure for large-scale money movement, as a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer. You will architect and maintain the cloud infrastructure powering our financial platform, ensuring scalability and reliability while supporting rapid development and deployment. This role involves managing GCP resources and CI/CD pipelines, designing for compliance, and partnering with backend engineers. You will build self-service tools and platforms for engineers, improve deployment workflows, and contribute to monitoring and alerting systems. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of relevant experience, a systems thinking mindset, and expertise in cloud infrastructure management, CI/CD, and automation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering experience
• Systems thinking mindset - ability to understand how infrastructure decisions impact the entire platform
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) using Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Experience with modular microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of security best practices in cloud environments
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and service deployment strategies
• Comfortable writing automation and tooling in Python, Javascript, Go, Bash, or another preferred language
• Proactive mindset - you seek out ways to improve systems and enable others
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required

Responsibilities

• Architect Scalable Infrastructure: Design and manage GCP infrastructure (App Engine, Firestore, Cloud Functions, IAM, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, etc.) that supports 100M+ weekly transaction volume
• Build Internal Developer Platform - Create self-service tools and platforms that enable engineers to deploy, monitor, and operate services independently
• Build Reliable CI/CD Systems: Own and improve deployment workflows that enable rapid, safe releases for a fast-moving fintech platform
• Design for Compliance: Help define and enforce infrastructure best practices that meet financial industry security and compliance requirements
• Partner on System Design: Work with backend engineers to design scalable systems that can handle complex financial workflows
• Ensure Observability: Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and reliability tooling that provides visibility into critical financial systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial systems infrastructure - understanding of compliance and security requirements
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Security and IAM - experience with least-privilege access and secrets management
• Incident management and on-call experience
• High-scale systems - experience with infrastructure supporting high transaction volumes

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company
• Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements
• Small team, big impact - your work directly shapes our entire platform infrastructure
• Professional growth - lead infrastructure decisions for a scaling fintech platform
• Modern tech stack - work with cutting-edge cloud technologies
• Mission-driven - build infrastructure that powers financial innovation