Senior/Staff Software Engineer | Infrastructure

Privy (Headquarters: New York or Remote)

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Company: Privy is an identity and fintech infrastructure startup building a wallet and digital asset API for companies using blockchain and distributed systems, backed by $40M from Ribbit & Sequoia. We power digital ownership for millions of users (>5M MAU) with a focus on privacy and user control through modern cryptography. We're a small, high-ownership team shipping multiple times weekly.

Role: As a Senior or Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Privy, you will be responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that supports our high-traffic wallet and API services. You'll work on ensuring reliability, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of our cloud environment, enabling our product teams to ship features quickly and safely.

Responsibilities:
*   Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
*   Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
*   Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
*   Work with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
*   Ensure the security and compliance (e.g., SOC2) of our infrastructure.
*   Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize performance and reliability.
*   Contribute to incident response and post-mortem analysis.
*   Drive infrastructure strategy and best practices (Staff level).

Ideal Candidate:
*   Strong experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
*   Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP acceptable).
*   Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi).
*   Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
*   Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
*   Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems concepts.
*   Experience supporting high-availability, high-scale production systems.
*   Based in NYC or willing to work remotely.

Benefits: Competitive salary/equity, 100% health coverage, 401(k), remote flexibility, NYC office option, PTO, parental leave, WFH stipend, team events.