Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer
Slash is a financial technology company that provides a banking platform and expense management software. It offers features tailored to specific industries, including high-yield accounts, corporate cards with cashback, working capital, and modern capabilities like crypto on/off ramps and developer APIs.
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About Slash
Slash is a financial technology company, not a bank, that provides a comprehensive financial platform for businesses, including unified banking for crypto companies. It offers a single dashboard to manage both crypto and fiat assets. Services include high-yield checking and savings accounts, corporate cards with up to 2% cashback, working capital, and seamless stablecoin (USDC, USDT) on/off-ramps and payments. The company also issues its own stablecoin, USDSL, built on the Base network. Slash provides developer-friendly APIs for automation and simplified multi-entity management, catering to industries like marketing, e-commerce, and Web3. Banking services are provided through partners such as Column N.A. and Piermont Bank, while digital asset services are offered in partnership with third parties like Bridge Building Inc.
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About the Role
You'll own and scale the foundation of a fast-growing banking platform, keeping systems reliable, secure, and fast while building the tooling and infrastructure that lets the rest of the team move quickly without breaking things. You'll work across the cloud stack (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes), define the infrastructure roadmap, and own critical decisions around performance, observability, security, and deployment, helping the company serve billions of dollars in business spend reliably and securely.
Requirements
- 2-3+ years of experience shipping high-quality infrastructure for critical, high-availability systems
- Production experience in AWS (EKS, ALB, MSK, ElastiCache, S3, WAF, VPC networking)
- Proficiency in TypeScript or another object-oriented language
- An ability to think through internal engineering requirements and come up with high-impact ways to quickly unblock teams
- Deep experience in one or more of: large-scale distributed SQL database administration (e.g. CockroachDB, PostgreSQL), real-time workflow and queue systems (e.g. Temporal), container orchestration and service infrastructure (Kubernetes/EKS, load balancing, ingress, service mesh)
Responsibilities
- Influence and implement the next generation of the database, real-time workflow, and container orchestration infrastructure
- Scale and evolve the Kubernetes (EKS) platform, CockroachDB clusters, Kafka (MSK), Temporal workflows, and ElastiCache Redis through hypergrowth
- Work across engineering to introduce and scale best practices with cloud-native technologies like AWS ALB, WAF, Route 53, OpenSearch, S3, and Vercel
- Build and maintain abstractions within Terraform and Pulumi to simplify architecture, increase velocity, and push ownership to product teams
- Improve the speed and reliability of the CI/CD pipeline
- Find solutions to the toughest scaling, performance, and low-latency problems across a monolithic deployment serving burst financial traffic
Benefits
- Comprehensive health + benefits plan
- Unlimited PTO