Shakepay is hiring a
Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Platform Engineer at Shakepay, a company that offers financial services related to Bitcoin. The role involves optimizing code delivery, developing deployment processes, streamlining engineering onboarding, creating tooling and processes for developers, building/deploying/maintaining security controls, troubleshooting performance issues, measuring key delivery metrics, and participating in the on-call rotation.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a DevOps/SRE/Cloud engineer role
• Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS in production and continuous build environments
• Experience monitoring high availability environments using tools such as DataDog
• Extensive knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization
• Experience working with a highly collaborative team
• Experience with incident management

Responsibilities

• Optimize code delivery to ensure that every engineer is delivering their best work
• Develop deployment processes and tools to ensure our software gets to customers safely and efficiently
• Streamline the engineering onboarding process via automation, highlighting learning opportunities and an introduction to delivery
• Create tooling and processes to help developers avoid outages
• Build/deploy/maintain security controls, instrumentation, and detection infrastructure
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance issues to ensure optimal system performance
• Measure key delivery metrics and respond to any major disruptions of service
• Participate in the on-call rotation and help keeping it sustainable

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, DataDog, AWS cloud/SRE suite (Aurora, EKS, VPC, Lambdas, CloudFormation, etc.), postgres, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Node.js
• Experience building fintech infrastructure
• Some bitcoin knowledge, and the urge to learn more
• A folder of SafeForWork reaction memes

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and stock options
• Health benefits from day 1
• Remote-friendly
• Learning and development (a $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training)
• Time off (20 days of vacation per year, and a $1,000 bonus if used all)
• Parental leave (a top up to 100% of salary for 18 weeks)
• Home office setup (a MacBook, a $1,200 budget for home office improvements, and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses)
• Salary in bitcoin option
• Team and company offsites