Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Engineering Team

We are building a team of changemakers. It is not enough to have the intention to do good - Esusu engineers translate intent into action. We believe that accomplishing our ambitious goals cannot be done by lone heroes. Lasting change requires work by synergistic teams, and we look for Engineers who are highly skilled at collaboration.

The challenge

Esusu is looking for a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to build infrastructure that supports our data pipelines and services. You will lead the infrastructure team which is responsible for designing and implementing tooling to automate code deployment, monitor service health, improve stability of the backend, and enforce service level agreements (SLAs). Your workload will include a mix of management and technical responsibilities as you both manage the infrastructure team and lead technical aspects of its roadmap. This role reports to the Vice-President of Engineering.

More tactically, you will have the opportunity to own key development features across multiple lines of business while implementing best-in-class security standards to protect customer data and managing direct reports. This will require the ability to jump in the weeds of writing code, planning for scale, and the capability to think from a product-oriented perspective.

Core competencies we are hiring for

• Superb programming and software development skills - You can independently devise and implement solutions to problems with minimal explanation needed.
• Strong communication skills - You can efficiently translate between technical and non-technical audiences and have strong writing skills.
• Heart of a teacher - You are a capable mentor, able to empower and inspire others on your team.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure experience
• Manage the infrastructure which powers our services which primarily relies on AWS Lambda, AWS SNS/SQS, RDS, EKS, and MongoDB.
• Experience building tooling to enhance developer productivity.
• Experience working in environments that utilize Infrastructure-as-code philosophy and helping developers adopt such practices.
• Build tooling to facilitate automated code testing and deployment in a consistent manner across teams, including command line tools for developers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build monitoring solutions to provide insights into service health and collect business relevant metrics.
• Help define and maintain a set of service level agreements (SLAs). Regularly report on our adherence to these SLAs and identify gaps.
• Expertise with implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy, Github Actions, ArgoCD, etc. Experience implementing these on AWS is preferred.
• Fluency and experience in a scripting language such as Python or Go. In particular, experience writing command line tools and development tools (eg. slack bots, github scripts, scripts to integrate with Jira and other APIs).
• Familiarity integrating data pipelines with common monitoring systems such as Grafana and Prometheus.
• Experience with infrastructure supporting machine learning model deployment is preferred.
• Familiarity with managing database infrastructure is a nice-to-have, including database orchestration, horizontal scaling, and snapshotting.

Above and beyond

• Experience working with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe).
• Experience with Atlassian project management tools (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience working in fintech companies, particularly involving interactions with property management services and credit bureaus.
• Prior experience managing a small team is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary - for Seed/Series B startup
• Restricted Stock Units (RSU)
• Full Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Fitness/Gym Stipend
• Commuter Benefits
• Paid Parental Leave
• Remote Work Friendly - While you may need to come into the office on certain days, we trust you to manage your work and deliverables. As long as quality work is being done, you can choose the environment that works for you.
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Mission driven company with strong culture

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