Senior Infrastructure Engineer

MLabs • New York, NY

1d • $170,000 - $220,000 • Remote

About The Position

Our client is a venture-backed financial technology firm dedicated to transforming the global movement of money through stablecoin infrastructure. Backed by premier investors such as Paradigm and Dragonfly, the organization is building a full-service platform designed to make issuing, managing, and integrating digital dollars seamless for developers, fintechs, and institutional partners.
The team operates with the discipline of high-performance finance and the agility of a crypto-native startup. They are currently seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and build an internal platform that empowers product teams to deploy software with confidence, reliability, and speed. This individual will bring a software engineering mindset to infrastructure by building reusable abstractions, internal services, and developer tooling that reduce cognitive load across the engineering organization.
This is a remote-friendly role with a preference for candidates who can maintain a majority overlap with Eastern Time (ET) business hours.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant focus on infrastructure and cloud domains.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript or another strictly typed language.
• Deep understanding of AWS architecture and proven experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes workloads.
• Strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including availability, consistency, and fault tolerance.
• Familiarity with GitOps patterns, deployment automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) systems.
• Ability to operate in short feedback loops and a desire to build foundational infrastructure for the future of digital finance.
• Ability to provide significant overlap with Eastern Time business hours.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Own and evolve core platform components, including a TypeScript-based Pulumi codebase and Kubernetes-based runtime environments.
• Engineering Standards: Enforce high engineering standards through code, architecting scalable systems that prioritize reliability and security.
• Developer Experience: Improve developer productivity by building internal development platforms focused on self-service and "golden paths."
• System Observability: Design and maintain the monitoring stack, defining SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and operational dashboards.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build reusable systems and infrastructure primitives rather than one-off scripts to ensure a scalable and maintainable environment.
• Operational Excellence: Participate in the maintenance and operations of production-grade systems, including on-call rotations and incident response tooling.

Benefits

• High-Impact Work: Opportunity to build foundational infrastructure for a next-generation financial fabric.
• Elite Team: Work alongside a small, mission-driven group of builders from high-performance finance and crypto backgrounds.
• Growth Environment: Engagement with a fast-moving, well-funded startup during a period of high growth.
• Inclusive Culture: Our client is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering a diverse and equitable workplace regardless of race, religion, gender identity, or veteran status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed