Staff Software Engineer - Security and Reliability

You understand our specific technology stack and can hit the ground running:

•  Go microservices running on Google Cloud Run
•  PostgreSQL
•  Redis
•  Google Cloud Platform infrastructure (Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage)
•  Terraform for infrastructure as code
•  Blockchain indexing and transaction submission
•  External service integrations

You have deep expertise in at least several of these areas:

•  Building comprehensive observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards)
•  Designing and implementing effective alerting strategies that minimize noise while catching real issues
•  Creating automation and tooling that reduces operational toil
•  Establishing incident response processes, runbooks, and postmortem practices
•  Conducting security audits and threat modeling for distributed systems
•  Implementing security controls, authentication/authorization systems, and secrets management
•  Performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput systems
•  Database reliability, backup/recovery strategies, and data integrity
•  API security, rate limiting, and DDoS mitigation
•  Compliance and audit logging for financial systems

You understand that sometimes the rocket must be launched and completed in flight. This means you're comfortable making pragmatic security and reliability tradeoffs when needed, while always having a plan to improve things incrementally. You know when "good enough for now with monitoring" is the right answer, and when "we need to fix this before we ship" is non-negotiable.

What You'll Own

• Observability & Monitoring: Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring across our microservices architecture. Instrument our Go services with meaningful metrics. Create dashboards that tell the story of system health. Ensure every engineer can debug any issue in production with the data we collect.
• Alerting & On-call Support: Design alerting strategies that wake people up for real problems, not noise. Every engineer is already in an oncall rotation - your job is to make their lives easier by building better alerts, better runbooks, and better automation. Reduce the toil so oncall is manageable and incidents are handled smoothly by whoever is on duty.
• Security Audits & Reviews: Conduct regular security reviews of our codebase, infrastructure, and third-party integrations. Identify vulnerabilities before they become incidents. Work with the team to implement mitigations. Establish security best practices and ensure they're followed.
• Incident Response Systems: Build the systems and processes that enable effective incident response across the team. Create runbooks, automate common remediation tasks, and establish postmortem practices that turn incidents into learning opportunities. Make it easy for any engineer to handle incidents confidently.
• Reliability Engineering: Identify and eliminate single points of failure. Implement circuit breakers, retries, and graceful degradation. Build automation that reduces manual operational work. Ensure our systems can handle 100x growth without proportionally increasing operational burden.
• Infrastructure Security: Secure our GCP infrastructure, manage secrets properly, implement least-privilege access controls, and ensure our Terraform configurations follow security best practices. Own the security of our CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.

What You’ll Get In Return

• A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation
• Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value
• Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage
• Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development
• Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment
• Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being

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