Leading Architect of Scalable Cloud Infrastructure

7 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Oak HCFT Full time

Company Overview

Highnote is a pioneering fintech company that has revolutionized the payments industry. Founded in 2020 by a team of visionaries from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, we offer an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform.

We empower digital-first organizations to easily issue and process payment cards that drive business growth and profitability. With a strong focus on customer obsession, executional excellence, and intentional inclusion, we're helping businesses thrive in the future by creating innovative payment products that solve real-world problems.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer at Highnote, you'll be part of a highly collaborative and fast-changing environment. You'll play a key role in elevating the organization's security, stability, and performance of our services by designing and implementing scalable cloud infrastructure solutions.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with other teams to build an infrastructure-as-a-platform that empowers teams to iterate fast, while ensuring security, stability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting for the infrastructure to ensure seamless service delivery.

Requirements and Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or software engineering.
  • Strong experience working with GCP or AWS.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and/or Istio.
  • Experience with one or more scripting/programming languages, preferably Java/Python.
  • Able to work autonomously in a fast-paced and cross-functional environment.
  • Strong skills in troubleshooting issues in a highly distributed environment.

Bonus Skills

  • Experience in the financial payments technology space.
  • Expertise in Cloud networking.
  • Experience with GCP technologies, such as Spanner, BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, etc.
  • Experience in building large-scale, distributed systems.

Benefits and Compensation

At Highnote, we believe in treating our employees like family. We offer:

  • Flexible Paid Time Off.
  • 100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents.
  • 401k program.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks paid leave for the birth parent, and up to 6 weeks paid leave for the non-birth parent.
  • Equity in Highnote.
  • Stipend to build out your home office; internet and phone reimbursement.
  • A competitive salary range of $170,000-$230,000 per annum, based on robust market research and fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential-based.


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