River
Infrastructure Engineer
Job Summary
This role involves leading efforts to build, secure, and scale infrastructure systems for a Bitcoin-focused financial firm. Key responsibilities include managing deployment, monitoring, and scaling of services, as well as improving security, availability, and reliability. The ideal candidate has experience with DevOps or SRE roles, proficiency with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and network security, and a proactive ownership mindset. The position offers remote work within the U.S., along with comprehensive benefits including health coverage, paid time off, equity, and parental leave.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
At River we are building the most trusted financial institution in the world, powered by bitcoin. We believe in a future where every person will have bitcoin savings, and every business will have bitcoin on the balance sheet. We obsessively design and build delightful products that help our clients buy, sell, secure, and use Bitcoin.
We are seeking a security-minded infrastructure engineer to lead key efforts to help secure, simplify, and scale our systems. River primarily uses Google Cloud but has a number of on-premises systems.
River is headquartered in Columbus, OH, and has raised more than $50 million from leading investors, including; Goldcrest, Kingsway, Polychain, M13, DG, and Valor.
What you will be doing
Building the systems that power the deployment, monitoring, and scaling of our software services
Leading projects to improve security, availability, reliability and scalability across our infrastructure
Creating and executing on disaster recovery plans
Participating in on-call rotations
Shaping the culture of the infrastructure organization for years to come
What we look for in you
You have at least 3 years experience in a DevOps, Infra and/or SRE role
You have a deep understanding of computer and network security
You have experience running Kubernetes in production
You have hands-on coding ability
You are highly proficient with Google Cloud Platform services like GKE, CloudSQL, LoadBalancing, CloudArmor, Networking, BigQuery, Compute and Security services
You have strong network perimeter defense and analysis skills
You are familiar with supporting engineering teams in a collaborative and productive way
You take ownership of the systems you build
You have experience developing solutions to ambiguous problems
You're excited about what we are building at River
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Nice to haves
You have worked on financial services infrastructure
You have worked at a fast growing startup
Interest in Bitcoin
Location & Salary
100% remote option available within the United States. with offices in SF, NYC, and Columbus
Salary range between $150,000 - $220,000 based on skills and experience
Significant equity stock options
Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
Unlimited PTO
Parental Leave separate from regular PTO policy
401k
River
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