Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MoonPay, you will play a crucial role in improving the company's PaaS tooling and infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include enhancing the maintainability of infrastructure-as-code, managing Kubernetes clusters, and implementing monitoring solutions with Datadog.

You will work closely with various engineering teams to ensure the reliability and performance of systems while integrating new technologies. Success in this role involves not only maintaining existing systems but also innovating to support the growth of MoonPay's platform in the decentralized economy.

The salary range for this role is between $170,000 and $220,000.

Skills that matter here

• Google Cloud Platform: This role involves managing and maintaining GCP infrastructure.
• Kubernetes: You will be responsible for lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters.
• Typescript: Experience with JavaScript frameworks, including Typescript, is required.
• DataDog: You will build and maintain monitoring and alerting mechanisms using DataDog.
• Postgres: Knowledge of Postgres is beneficial for managing data within the infrastructure.
• Redis: Experience with Redis may be applicable in enhancing system performance.

Who this role suits

• A candidate with a strong background in systems administration and platform engineering.
• Someone who is comfortable working in regulated industries and understands complex reliability structures.
• A collaborative team player who engages with developers and other engineering functions.
• An individual who is proactive in using AI tools for problem-solving and research.

From the employer

What you’ll do 👀

In the short term we are focused on enhancing our PaaS tooling:

• Improving the maintainability and usability of our Infrastructure-as-code
• Adding self-service functionality for deploying and operating our infrastructure
• Lifecycling and maintenance of our Kubernetes clusters and GCP infrastructure
• Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring & alerting mechanisms with Datadog

In the medium-to-long term you’ll get to:

• Implement new and shiny technologies on top of Kubernetes as you see fit to ensure our tech can scale with the business.
• Develop and integrate solutions with a bias for automation in order to improve and maintain reliability across the production estate and make recovery easier.
• Design and track metrics for site uptime and performance ensuring high levels of visibility are maintained.
• Collaborate closely with all other engineering functions to provide timely feedback from our environments.
• Engage with new business units and acquisitions to understand, support and enhance their infrastructure
• Support Engineering on their journey to deliver better software, faster and more safely (think “It’s OK to deploy on Fridays” 😎).

You should apply if

• You have strong systems administration skills, know the difference between a container and a virtual machine, and know your way around a Linux terminal
• You have platform engineering/SRE experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies
• You have either had experience with some of our tech stack or are confident you can cross train and up skill quickly
• You have experience working in a regulated industry
• You are confident working with and guiding developers on monitoring and logging of complex systems at scale
• You have worked on complex projects
• You reflexively reach for AI agents to assist in researching and solving your problems
• You can work collaboratively with different teams i.e. Security, Data, Engineering
• You want to forge and own MoonPay's reliability & recovery processes
• You’ve got at least a basic understanding of complex reliability structures, theories, principles, and best practices
• You have worked with JavaScript codebases and frameworks e.g Typescript, Node.JS and React.

Benefits & Perks 💡

• Competitive salary package
• 🤝 Equity package: We believe financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
• 📈 Pay for performance equity bonus: Those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
• 🚀 Moonshot award. We honor exceptional impact - 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant.
• 🏝 Unlimited holidays: We give you the autonomy to choose when to work (and when to switch off)
• 🌍 Hybrid working schedule: Work fully remotely or your nearest Moonbase, the choice is yours
• 🩺 Private Healthcare benefits: To protect you and your loved ones
• 🍼 Enhanced parental leave: So you can spend more time with your loved ones without a second thought
• 📚 Annual training budget: We support your training journey every step of the way
• 🪑 Home office setup allowance: Create the home office of your dreams
• 👛 Remote working allowance: Those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
• 💰 Monthly budget to spend on our products and zero fee crypto transactions: Cultivate your inner DEGEN
• 💰 Employee referral programme: Great people know great people, refer them to receive 10K in USDC
• ✈️ Regular remote company offsites: Meet your colleagues regularly for high impact in person sessions and hackathons
• 🚀 **Working in a disruptive and fast-growing company where excellence is rewarded.