Staff DevOps Engineer
Tazapay is a global payments company providing cross-border money movement.
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About Tazapay
Tazapay provides regulated global payment infrastructure for businesses operating across borders. Its unified platform supports payment acceptance, stablecoin-to-fiat conversion, multi-currency business accounts, treasury and FX management, local payment methods, hosted checkout, payment links, API integrations, and payouts in more than 100 currencies. The company also offers white-label collection and payout services for platforms, along with buyer protection, compliance, risk management, and fraud protection. Its stated customers include fintechs, Web3 platforms, marketplaces, travel companies, online gaming businesses, SaaS platforms, and digital-product providers.
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About the Role
You will design and deliver highly scalable, reliable, secure and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure, make architectural tradeoffs, and act as a technical leader and mentor for DevOps and platform engineers. You will lead AI adoption for automation, drive PCI-DSS and SOC2 compliant practices, partner with engineering and product on the platform roadmap, and lead incident response and SRE practices.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform or Cloud Engineering
- Hands-on experience building and operating AWS cloud infrastructure at scale
- Deep knowledge of Linux
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking and asynchronous architectures
- Expert in Go, Python or shell scripting
- Extensive AWS experience (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, Secrets Manager, SSM, WAF)
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, CDK or CloudFormation
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and GitOps
- Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Container experience with Docker
- Operating Postgres, MongoDB and Redis at scale
- Experience with microservice architecture
Responsibilities
- Make architectural tradeoffs and deliver scalable, reliable, secure, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
- Mentor DevOps and platform engineers
- Demonstrate technical leadership across teams
- Lead AI strategy and adoption for productivity, infrastructure automation and operational efficiency
- Drive secure and compliant infrastructure and deployment practices (PCI-DSS, SOC2)
- Participate in infrastructure, architecture and security design reviews
- Partner with engineering and product to define and execute the platform roadmap
- Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable infrastructure design
- Manage stakeholder communication on deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams
- Improve platform reliability, developer experience and deployment velocity
- Engage in capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning and cost optimization
- Lead production outages, incident response, post-mortems and SRE practices