Slash is building the future of business banking, one industry at a time. We believe businesses deserve financial infrastructure tailored to how they actually operate. That's why we're creating a new category of business banking. We combine the reliability of traditional banking (high yields, competitive rewards, and comprehensive security) with industry-specific features that make businesses more efficient, more competitive, and more profitable.
Started in 2021, Slash is one of the fastest growing fintechs in the world and we power over three billion dollars a year in business purchasing across numerous industries. We're backed by some of the best investors in the world including Menlo Ventures, NEA, Y Combinator, Stanford University, and the founders of Tinder and Plaid. Slash is headquartered in San Francisco, and has a strong in-person culture.
About the roleSlash is, at its core, a technology company and is on a mission to build the best engineering team in the world. We’re looking for a Platform Engineer focused on Core Infrastructure to own and scale the foundation of our banking platform as we grow fast.
You’ll be responsible for keeping our systems reliable, secure, and fast — while building the tooling and infra that enables the rest of the team to move quickly without breaking things. That means scaling and working on everything on the cloud (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes).
You’ll help define our infra roadmap, own critical decisions around performance, observability, security, and deployment, and play a key role in enabling Slash to serve billions of dollars in business spend reliably and securely.
What you’ll be doing:Be responsible for keeping Slash’s production environment up and healthy.
Scale and iterate on our infrastructure as we grow (we’re growing really fast) - we run a monolithic deployment on Kubernetes, with CockroachDB as our primary production database
Improve the speed & reliability of our continuous delivery & integration pipeline.
Own and execute against PCI, SOC 2 and all relevant compliance standards
Architect security alerts, controls, code audits in AWS
Monitor, track and analyze security events and leverage that information to iterate and improve our systems.
Write libraries and infrastructure tooling to speed up internal development and complicated workflows
Has experience being directly responsible for scaling product during high growth stages at startups.
Is a builder and gets things done
Experience scaling software systems to handle high levels of burst traffic
Opportunity for high growth
High autonomy + ownership culture
Comprehensive health + benefits plan
Working out of our downtown San Francisco office space
Unlimited Vacation
Top Skills
What We Do
Backed by Y Combinator, NEA, Stanford University, Menlo Ventures, and the founders of Tinder and Plaid, Slash is the banking platform of choice for over 2,000 of America's most innovative businesses.
Our all in one virtual card, banking, bill pay, and accounting automation platform helps entrepreneurs stay on top of their finances, allowing them to spend more time doing what they love. Slash powers over 3 billion dollars a year in purchases.
