Role in brief
MoonPay is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to improve their platform-as-a-service (PaaS) tooling and infrastructure. This role involves enhancing maintainability, usability, and self-service capabilities for their infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes clusters. The ideal candidate has SRE experience in fast-growing tech companies, strong systems administration skills, and familiarity with regulated industries, ready to contribute to a platform supporting the decentralized economy.
About the role
This Senior Infrastructure Engineer position focuses on developing and maintaining MoonPay's platform infrastructure. Initially, the role emphasizes improving existing PaaS tooling, including infrastructure-as-code maintainability and self-service deployment features. This involves managing Kubernetes clusters and GCP infrastructure lifecycles, alongside building monitoring and alerting systems using Datadog to ensure operational visibility.
Over time, the role expands to implementing new technologies on Kubernetes to support business scaling and developing automated solutions for reliability. A key aspect is designing and tracking metrics for site uptime and performance, ensuring high visibility. The engineer will also collaborate with other engineering teams, provide feedback from environments, and support new business units with their infrastructure needs.
Success in this role means enabling other engineering functions to deliver software more efficiently and safely, fostering a culture where frequent deployments are supported by robust infrastructure. The engineer will be instrumental in forging and owning MoonPay's reliability and recovery processes, contributing to a platform that simplifies digital currency transactions for a global user base.
The salary for this position ranges from $170,000 to $220,000 USD.
Skills that matter here
- Google Cloud Platform: This role involves managing and maintaining MoonPay's infrastructure hosted on GCP.
- Postgres: The engineer will work with Postgres databases as part of the overall infrastructure.
- Redis: This position requires familiarity with Redis for caching and data structuring within the platform.
- DataDog: The role includes building and maintaining dashboards, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms using DataDog.
- ArgoCD: The engineer will enhance PaaS tooling, which includes improving infrastructure-as-code, potentially utilizing ArgoCD for continuous delivery.
- Kubernetes: A core responsibility is the lifecycle management and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters, along with implementing new technologies on top of them.
Who this role suits
- A person with a strong background in systems administration and SRE practices, particularly from fast-growing tech companies.
- Someone who is confident in guiding developers on monitoring and logging practices for complex systems.
- An individual who thrives on improving infrastructure maintainability and usability, with a bias towards automation.
- A candidate experienced in regulated industries who values trust and compliance in their work.
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.
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This role offers a hybrid working schedule, allowing the employee to work fully remotely or from a Moonbase office.
What is the seniority level for this position?
This is a senior-level position.
What are the core technical skills required for this role?
Key technical skills include experience with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, DataDog, ArgoCD, GitHub, and Typescript, along with strong systems administration skills.