Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

November 13

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $179.5k - $211.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Paxos

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Crypto • Fintech • Banking

Paxos is a blockchain infrastructure platform providing enterprises with solutions for building stablecoins and digital assets. It offers regulated and fully-backed digital assets, with a commitment to compliance and transparency, trusted by leading global companies. Paxos is known for its innovative approach to stablecoins, including partnerships with prominent financial institutions which enhance digital payment capabilities and foster decentralized finance initiatives.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2012

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

📋 Description

• Architect, build, and operate resilient, scalable, and self-healing cloud infrastructure on AWS. • Lead the evolution of Kubernetes and platform services to enable secure, automated, and multi-region operations. • Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, AWS CDK, and Crossplane to ensure consistency, security, and auditability. • Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, and monitoring pipelines to reduce manual effort and operational risk. • Establish and champion reliability, observability, and performance standards across Tier-1 services, ensuring alignment with regulatory and partner requirements. • Partner with product engineering to enhance CI/CD velocity, service resilience, and visibility through shared tooling, SLOs, and platform patterns. • Lead incident reviews, root-cause analyses, and systemic reliability improvements, embedding learnings into runbooks and design practices. • Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and fault tolerance, driving data-driven operational excellence. • Mentor and upskill engineers, shaping architectural direction and influencing design decisions across multiple teams. • Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for Paxos’ infrastructure platform, aligning platform scalability with business growth and compliance objectives.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience. • 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles. • Deep expertise in public cloud platforms, especially AWS, with hands-on experience in services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM. • Strong proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration. • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane. • Solid scripting or programming skills in languages like Python, Bash, or Go, with a strong focus on automation. • Working knowledge of managed database services like Amazon RDS, Aurora, or PostgreSQL is a plus. • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a systems-thinking mindset. • Strong communicator who thrives in collaborative, remote-first teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paxos offers a competitive total compensation and benefits package, including equity and bonuses based on both your individual performance and company performance. Eligibility for bonuses is dependent on job level, and actual salary within the range depends on your skills, experience, and qualifications.