Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Who we are:

Welcoming, collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here.  Galileo is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. Galileo leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at https://www.galileo-ft.com/working-at-galileo.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Infrastructure team! You will be responsible for delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance and security.  Acting as a technical lead and mentor for the team while overseeing and creating patterns and behaviors that lead to more reliable and available systems.

The role / responsibilities: 

• Design, develop, and deploy modular cloud-based systems
• Develop and maintain cloud solutions in accordance with best practices
• Ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements

Technical Skills:

• Coding - being able to build tools and automation, and write good code (logical, maintainable, well-tested, etc)
• Python preferred
• Testing Knowledgeable - Understands unit, integration, and functional tests and leverages them
• Leverages Infrastructure as Code
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration (CentOS, RedHat, Amazon Linux)
• AWS networking and Compute - Resiliency and cost effectiveness
• EKS Cluster Deployment and Management
• EC2 Deployment and Management
• WAN Technologies - Transit Gateways, Direct Connect
• VPC's (and all the implications that go with it, stuff like cross-AZ routing, inter- and intra-VPC routing, etc)
• DNS in AWS - what you can do with R53 zones (like cross-account sharing, split horizons, etc), R53 DNS firewall, inbound and outbound resolvers, how VPCE/Privatelink interacts with DNS
• VPCE/PrivateLink - how it works, what’s involved in both consuming and offering a VPCE Service
• Load balancing - different LB types, tradeoffs and when to use which, how they interact with applications (headers, PPv2, etc)
• General AWS - What they do, what you can do with them, how to monitor them
• Step Functions, EBS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DDB, Cloudwatch, EventBridge, etc.

Personality Traits:

• Growth mindset / desire to innovate - being generally unhappy with status quo and coming up with ways to make it better
• Data driven, but comfortable with ambiguity - we often don’t know the answers, and that’s ok, but we figure it out
• Good communication skills - works well with others, good at providing clarity
• Be able to explain and express critical concepts
• Understand that even internal teams are still our customers
• Use data to drive decisions and conversations
• Be Customer First!  Including understanding there are internal and external customers.
• Care about what the customer wants and needs so we can provide the best solution and experience for them
• Be able to communicate well with non-network people in order to learn and understand their needs
• Learn and understand at a high level what we are supporting, so we can best help support them

 

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Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.    This role may also be eligible for a bonus and/or long term incentives. Your recruiter will p