Senior Cloud Infrastructure Software Engineer

Arta is on an audacious and incredibly rewarding mission: to pave the way for people everywhere to lead more successful financial lives.  Arta leverages AI and sophisticated digital tools—once reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals—and makes them accessible to a broader global audience. Think of it as your own digital family office, combining intelligent investment strategies, alternative assets, private market access, and smart automation to help you grow and protect your wealth effortlessly.  We value trust, teamwork, and adaptability. 

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure across the entire stack—ranging from core build and deployment systems to user-serving servers, data pipelines and storage systems to trading platforms and research infrastructure. Design and build core systems that result in higher efficiency for eng teams. You will play a critical role in supporting both real-time and batch workflows, ensuring scalability, performance, and high reliability for mission-critical systems. 

This is an individual contributor role, utilizing your subject matter expertise to lead various efforts along with cross-functional leads to drive critical decision-making with regards to the core systems and infrastructure.

• Maintain and evolve key infrastructure at Arta, this includes build and deployment infrastructure

• Enable engineering to design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure supporting both real-time and batch workflows, with a focus on high-throughput, low-latency data processing for autonomous trading, quantitative research, and user-serving servers with high uptime.

• Maintain cohesive design across multiple different projects as well as scopes in a way that manages the complexity of our cloud projects

• Contribute to architectural decision-making, documentation, and mentoring of teammates in infrastructure best practices and automation strategies.

• Collaborate closely with frontend, research, and trading teams to ensure infrastructure and data pipelines meet performance, precision, and usability needs.

• Integrate third-party platforms and data providers, ensuring secure and reliable API/data stream ingestion, and handle complex external data integration challenges.

• Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in distributed systems, optimizing performance and resource usage.

• Own deployment pipelines and production operations to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and observability of critical services

• Architect and implement scalable systems that support high-throughput, low-latency data processing, critical to autonomous trading and quantitative research

• Enforce security best practices and collaborate with internal stakeholders to meet compliance, audit, and governance requirements

• Continuously improve the reliability and availability of production systems, using automation to reduce toil and manual interventions.

• At least 7 years of overall software development experience

• Extensive experience with multi-cloud environment such as AWS/Azure, and preferably GCP, along with cloud-native technologies

• Proficiency in Python, C++ and Bash for infrastructure automation and tooling

• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), orchestration technologies, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi

• A deep understanding of security best practices in cloud environments

• Proven ability to work in cross-functional teams, collaborating effectively with frontend, research, and trading teams 

• Strong problem-solving and optimization skills, with experience tackling complex scalability challenges, including user-serving infrastructure with high uptime

• Prior experience in trading platforms or financial systems is highly preferred

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a fast-paced startup environment

• Authorized to work in the US

• Based in the Bay area or you have plans to relocate, and you are able to work from our Mountain View office at least 3-4 times a week.

1. Screening call with Head of Talent, 20-30m

2. Technical  Interview 1: System Design with a Cloud Infra Engineer, 60m

3. Technical Interview 2: Coding (in Python) with a Tech Lead, 60m

   • We use CoderPad, covering leet code type questions

   • No Algorithm or Data Structure questions

4. Technical Interview 3

   1. Additional round may be added based on the previous interview feedback

5. Cross-functional Interview with a Product Manager, 30m

6. Culture Interview with CEO, Caesar Sengupta, 30m

What We Offer

• A competitive salary and benefits package, with ample opportunities for growth and advancement

• A vibrant and dynamic work environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning are highly valued

• The opportunity to work with a diverse and talented team of industry experts, passionate about shaping the future of finance

• Robust health insurance offering for you and your family

• High deductible health plan available with health savings account contribution

• 20 weeks of parental leave

• 15 days PTO annually plus national and company holidays

Arta's Compensation Philosophy

We determine your salary based on factors including your interview performance, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Our offers are based on salary bands that are updated periodically using market benchmarks and consider geographic location as well (for example, higher cost regions like San Francisco or New York). If you are presented with an offer, we will review the base salary, benefits, number of options, notional option value and strike price. We would like to know if you accept our offer within 7 days.
Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
IC I: $110,000-$180,000
IC II: $160,000-$230,000
IC III: $180,000-$300,000