Infrastructure Engineer

About Bastion

Bastion enables businesses and enterprises to offer the next generation of on-chain and off-chain products via its powerful API and cutting-edge technology stack, unlocking the full potential of digital interactions for everyone. From startups to enterprises, Bastion’s product suite is specially designed to facilitate the transition to web3 for businesses and their end users. With Bastion, companies can seamlessly integrate web3 infrastructure into existing technologies through a compliant, white-label platform that includes custodial wallets, smart transaction routing, and data analytics. By combining the best of web2 and web3, Bastion enables companies to create faster, easier ways for people to pay, play, connect, and shop.

Overview

We are looking for a software engineer focusing on infrastructure to join the Bastion engineering team. In this role as a core member of our infrastructure team, you will build and maintain major features, through inception, design, implementation and launch, working closely with product and engineering disciplines across the company. You will spend the majority of your time on cross-functional self-contained feature teams focused on delivering value to the customer, while other projects will be more internally focused on integrations, scalability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud infrastructure systems from design and implementation to deployment and maintenance

• Educate the platform software engineering team on reliability best practices and collaborate to evolve the software engineering process to accommodate reliability principles

• Provide service outage escalation response alongside software engineers

• Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions

• Manage and build core services and infrastructure across the entire engineering organization

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, with an emphasis on improving engineering productivity and deployment safety and velocity

Qualifications

• Expertise in managing a production cloud environment with demanding up-time,  performance, and security requirements (experience as SRE, infrastructure engineer, platform engineer, software engineer)

• Strong experience in programming and implementation of backend & data management systems

• Experience adopting and employing open-source, home-grown, and commercial technology products as appropriate to enable product initiatives

• Strong familiarity with AWS and Kubernetes

• Experience with leading teams and projects

• Comfort working with leadership to allocate and prioritize engineering energy in support of infrastructure excellence in a real-world resource-constrained environment

Extra Credit

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and networking in a production context

• Experience building and/or using low-latency cross-region databases 

• Experience with Terraform and/or Pulumi

• Experience with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres

• Experience with secure enclaves (AWS Nitro, HSMs, etc)

• Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Helm, ArgoCD, and/or Flux

• Experience with cloud providers beyond AWS (Azure, GCP, etc.)

• Expertise in cloud network security

Bastion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, and placement. Bastion participates in E-Verify to authorize eligibility of employment in the United States.