Senior Infrastructure - Platform Engineer

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July 23

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Astra Finance

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Fintech • Finance • SaaS

Astra Finance is an all-in-one payments platform that provides an API for processing instant payments between bank accounts and cards. It is designed for product teams aiming to embed secure and fast payment solutions while minimizing the risk of fraud and failures. With features like instant disbursements, payout options, and accelerated ACH transfers, Astra Finance offers a full-stack payment processing solution, making it an ideal choice for fintech companies looking to streamline their payments infrastructure.

11 - 50 employees

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Astra is building mission-critical infrastructure for moving money at scale. • Our platform processes 100M+ in weekly transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime. • Looking for a senior infrastructure engineer who thinks in systems, not just tools. • You'll own the core infrastructure that powers Astra's financial platform. • Design infrastructure that can handle financial transactions, regulatory compliance, and scaling. • Create self-service tools for engineers to deploy, monitor, and operate services. • Own and improve deployment workflows for rapid releases. • Define infrastructure best practices that meet security and compliance requirements. • Work with backend engineers to design scalable systems.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering experience • Systems thinking mindset - ability to understand how infrastructure decisions impact the entire platform • Experience managing cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) using Terraform or similar IaC tools • Experience with modular microservices architecture and distributed systems • Strong understanding of security best practices in cloud environments • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, environment management, and service deployment strategies • Comfortable writing automation and tooling in Python, Javascript, Go, Bash, or another preferred language • Proactive mindset - you seek out ways to improve systems and enable others • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required • Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering from an accredited university highly preferred • Cloud Infrastructure: GCP (App Engine, Firestore, Cloud Functions, IAM, Pub/Sub, BigQuery) • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar platforms • Programming: Python, Go, Bash for automation and tooling • Monitoring: Experience with observability and alerting systems • Financial systems infrastructure - understanding of compliance and security requirements • Kubernetes and container orchestration • Security and IAM - experience with least-privilege access and secrets management • Incident management and on-call experience • High-scale systems - experience with infrastructure supporting high transaction volumes

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company • Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements • Small team, big impact - your work directly shapes our entire platform infrastructure • Professional growth - lead infrastructure decisions for a scaling fintech platform • Modern tech stack - work with cutting-edge cloud technologies • Mission-driven - build infrastructure that powers financial innovation