Platform Engineering Lead - InfoSec/DevOps/System Reliability/Scalability/Cloud Infrastructure (Seattle)

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Seattle, WA
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
Lead the platform engineering function focusing on system stability, scalability, and cloud infrastructure management. You'll evaluate bottlenecks, enhance observability, implement software reliability programs, and build internal productivity tools while prioritizing engineering roadmaps to support growth.
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About us

Today’s financial system is built to favor those with money. Grid’s mission is to level that playing field by building financial products that help users better manage their financial future. The Grid app lets users access cash, build credit, spend money, optimize their taxes, and lots, lots more.


Grid is a fast-growing team that’s deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions. We’re solving huge problems and believe that every team member has a big role to play. Come join our growing team in Seattle!


The Team

Grid's Seattle-based money team manages Grid's core backend services. The team is responsible for building and operating high availability systems that move money quickly and safely. Platform engineering is vital to Grid's ongoing scalability and success.


The Role

With a focus on platform engineering and infrastructure, you'll lead our system stability and scalability! This work will include a number of exciting challenges, including database optimization, DevOps improvements, cloud infrastructure management. InfoSec program management and product development.


As a founding team member of our platform engineering function, you'll have an opportunity to design, own and operate Platform Engineering at Grid as we grow orders of magnitude.

What you’ll do:

  • Evaluate backend and architectural bottlenecks
  • Analyze system observability and service level objectives
  • Improve scalability to enable order of magnitude growth
  • Lead architectural initiatives related to databases and microservice decomposition
  • Identify and solve real-world performance issues at scale
  • Prioritize Grid's Platform Engineering roadmap in order to unlock exponential growth
  • Build internal products to increase the productivity of the engineering team as a whole
  • Employ Platform Engineering and DevOps practices that enable Grid to increase deployment velocity and quality
  • Manage TechOps cost for Cloud Infrastructure and other vendors
  • Assist with compliance programs and partnerships as needed by business operations
  • Lead developer experience enhancement initiatives
  • Architect and implement software reliability programs
  • Improve observability and reduce MTTD/MTTR through proactive monitoring and engineering self-healing systems

You're a great candidate if you:

  • Have 5+ years of professional software development experience
  • Have 3+ years of experience in consumer software technology
  • Have experience in high growth tech startup environments
  • Are data-driven, fluent in SQL, datadog and basic analytics
  • Are mission-driven and excited to have a direct impact on millions of Americans' lives
  • Have experience with production environment change management, devops and cloud infrastructure - we use GCP
  • Have experience building workflows and maintaining CI/CD platforms such as Github Actions, Azure or Jenkins
  • Have experience with backend software engineering - we use Go
  • Have experience with BI/analytics tools - BigQuery, SQL
  • Have experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Statsd, Prometheus, Grafana, Influx, Telegraf, Vector, etc

Make it work · make it right · make it fast

Top Skills

Go
SQL
The Company
HQ: Oakland, CA
31 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We're building Grid to help hard-working Americans. We're starting by giving back the money you overpay in taxes today, not next year. Use that extra cash to save for a home upgrade, make the holidays a little brighter, or just give yourself a treat. Grid has already helped thousands of people get a little closer to their dreams. And we're just getting started.

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