Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
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- This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, platform engineering and security. You’ll define how Modern Treasury scales and operates our infrastructure, and guide teams toward cohesive architectural patterns
- You will set direction and build for infrastructure systems that support:
- Multi-rail money movement
- Real-time payment flows
- Ledger-backed transaction processing
- High-availability payment orchestration
- This is a senior individual contributor role with broad influence across Product, Platform, and Infrastructure teams
- Lead architecture for AWS infrastructure, container orchestration, and CI/CD to support scalable payment systems
- Standardize automation and infrastructure-as-code to provision, scale, and operate high-volume ledger and transaction platforms
- Reduce operational overhead through tooling, streamlined workflows, and engineering standards uplift
- Optimize performance, reliability, and observability across real-time and rails-specific infrastructure
- Define service ownership and operational models, aligning platform and product teams on scalable rail architecture
- Contribute to infrastructure and security strategy for new payment rails, including FBO structures, stablecoin integrations, and compliance-focused features
- 8+ years in Devops, or infrastructure engineering
- AWS infrastructure at scale
- Experience scaling systems that process high-volume workloads
- CI/CD systems and automation pipelines
- Strong track record of setting technical direction without direct authority
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience defining reliability standards and operational maturity models
- Experience building internal platforms that abstract complexity away from product teams
- Experience with application and product security
- Designing and operating distributed systems
- Strong experience with:
- Containerized environments (Docker)
- Observability and performance tuning for production systems
- Experience architecting infrastructure for multiple payment rails simultaneously
- Experience scaling systems that process high-volume financial or transactional workloads
- Familiarity with security and risk standards for money movement
- Ability to balance immediate delivery needs with long-term infrastructure strategy
- Understanding of payment rail mechanics (ACH, wires, RTP, cards, etc.)