Staff Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.
As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Superstate, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable infrastructure that powers our financial products. You'll architect robust systems that ensure our platforms deliver exceptional performance, availability, and security at scale. You’ll be wearing many hats across general devops, security, observability, and reliability and help lead these initiatives.

What you'll do

Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for our web applications and blockchain systems

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code

Develop comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure system reliabilityLead incident response efforts and conduct post-incident reviews to improve system resilience

Implement security best practices across all infrastructure and deployment processes

Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize application performance and reliability

Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure and improve service reliability

Automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil through tooling and process improvements

Manage capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud resources

What you'll bring to the team

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

8+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure experience

Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure management

Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Strong background in systems engineering, networking, and distributed systems

Expertise in containerization and orchestration (ECS, EKS)Proficiency in languages (Java, Go, Rust, or similar) for automation and tooling

Deep understanding of security principles and secure infrastructure practices

Experience with high-availability systems and disaster recovery planning

Exceptional problem-solving skills with a reliability and security focused mindset

Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

Microservices architecture and service decomposition strategies

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, etc.)

Database administration and optimization (PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS RDS)

AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, Shield, Config)

Cloudflare optimization and security configurations

Github Actions workflows and deployment strategies

Compliance automation for financial services (SOC2, ISO, PCI DSS)

Chaos engineering/resilience testing and reliability best practices

Benefits & Perks

Competitive compensation

Equity ownership

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

Professional development and security certification budget

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.
Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.