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Principal Infrastructure Engineer

đŸ”„ 54 minutes ago

đŸ’” $12.5k - $20.8k / month

⏰ Full Time

🔮 Lead

đŸ‘· Infrastructure Engineer

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Sezzle

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

đŸ‘„ B2C

đŸ›ïž eCommerce

Fintech ‱ B2C ‱ eCommerce

Sezzle is a financial technology company that offers a "buy now, pay later" service, allowing consumers to purchase products and pay for them in four interest-free installments over six weeks. The Sezzle app provides users with a flexible financing alternative to traditional credit cards, enabling instant approval decisions without impacting credit scores. Sezzle partners with various top brands, including Amazon, Walmart, and Target, to offer in-app and in-store payment options. The company's mission is to empower consumers financially by providing more financial freedom and control. It is available as a mobile app, with millions of downloads and high user ratings, and works towards accessibility and inclusion on its platform.

📋 Description

‱ Design, build, operate, and scale the platform powering Sezzle's interest-free installment payments and shopping experience ‱ Own complex infrastructure initiatives from architecture and prototyping through implementation, production rollout, and ongoing operation ‱ Identify system limits and implement improvements for increasing traffic, data volume, and workload complexity ‱ Connect business workflows to infrastructure, application, and data behavior to improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency ‱ Build capacity models, run load and stress tests, diagnose bottlenecks, and validate improvements ‱ Design resilient AWS account, IAM, network, and service architectures ‱ Build and operate the Kubernetes platform, including lifecycle automation, workload isolation, resource allocation, autoscaling, upgrades, and deployment reliability ‱ Scale and optimize Aurora RDS for MySQL and Postgres, including queries, indexes, connections, replication, failover, schema changes, and migrations ‱ Define and instrument service-level objectives and error budgets; implement failure isolation, backpressure, load shedding, and safe retries ‱ Participate in on-call and lead technical recovery during serious incidents and outages ‱ Design, test, and document disaster recovery, backup, restore, and failover mechanisms ‱ Build infrastructure-as-code and operational automation to make provisioning, deployments, upgrades, and recovery reproducible ‱ Improve observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts ‱ Deliver safe infrastructure migrations with phased rollouts, validation, and rollback paths ‱ Improve cloud cost efficiency through resource right-sizing, utilization, autoscaling, and storage optimization ‱ Build and evaluate AI-assisted tooling for incident investigation, runbooks, anomaly analysis, and repetitive operations ‱ Write architecture proposals, evaluate technology tradeoffs, review shared-infrastructure changes, and document system operation and failure ‱ Report to engineering leadership and collaborate with application engineering, Security, and Compliance

🎯 Requirements

‱ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field (required) ‱ 12+ years of experience across infrastructure, platform, site reliability, software development, or related engineering disciplines ‱ Substantial hands-on experience designing and operating production infrastructure at scale ‱ Deep production expertise with AWS, including compute, IAM, multi-account architectures, VPC design, and private connectivity ‱ Deep production expertise with Kubernetes; EKS experience strongly preferred ‱ Deep expertise with RDS/Aurora for MySQL and/or Postgres at scale ‱ Track record of personally delivering infrastructure scaling improvements ‱ Strong coding and automation skills using Golang, Python, or similar languages ‱ Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or equivalent ‱ Strong systems fundamentals including Linux, networking, DNS, TLS, storage, concurrency, and distributed system failure modes ‱ Experience operating a 24/7 high-availability platform with direct customer or revenue impact ‱ Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation ‱ Experience with hands-on incident response and postmortem remediation ‱ Experience implementing and testing disaster recovery against defined recovery objectives ‱ Practical experience with observability, load testing, capacity planning, and safe CI/CD practices ‱ Active use of AI tooling in engineering or operations ‱ Ability to carry ambiguous technical problems through production delivery and collaborate across engineering disciplines

đŸ–ïž Benefits

‱ Competitive gross monthly compensation of $12,500–$20,800 USD based on location and experience ‱ Remote work (job posting includes #Li-remote) ‱ Open-source-focused technology environment

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