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Senior Systems Engineer
SpreedlyRemote, East Coast, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 Dec 2024
About the role
About Us:
Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.
Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.
Product Offering:
Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:
Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.
About the Role:
As a Senior Systems Engineer at Spreedly, you will lead ambitious projects, drive deep architectural discussions and decisions, and mentor other team members within the engineering organization. A strong candidate for this role can bring a deep understanding of what it takes to build highly available, performant, and durable cloud architecture and be responsible for the building and scaling of complex infrastructure.
Our infrastructure team regularly works with internal engineering and product teams, as well as external vendors, in pursuit of improving our developer experience and satisfying our customer needs. We seek someone who wants to bring a broad set of technical skills, a development and automation-focused mindset, and a diverse view to our team as we expand our infrastructure to support our goals.
Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.
Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.
Product Offering:
Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:
Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.
About the Role:
As a Senior Systems Engineer at Spreedly, you will lead ambitious projects, drive deep architectural discussions and decisions, and mentor other team members within the engineering organization. A strong candidate for this role can bring a deep understanding of what it takes to build highly available, performant, and durable cloud architecture and be responsible for the building and scaling of complex infrastructure.
Our infrastructure team regularly works with internal engineering and product teams, as well as external vendors, in pursuit of improving our developer experience and satisfying our customer needs. We seek someone who wants to bring a broad set of technical skills, a development and automation-focused mindset, and a diverse view to our team as we expand our infrastructure to support our goals.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and scale the infrastructure that will power a globally distributed payments orchestration service, responsible for processing $4B in payments each month
- Infuse your knowledge of modern DevOps and SRE best practices into the team and broader engineering organization. You are a technical leader in your domain, ready to take the next step up the technical leadership ladder. You will have the opportunity to influence at the team level and beyond.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to team members. We are looking for an individual interested in hitting the ground running while uplifting the skills and abilities of everyone around them.
- Balance improving existing infrastructure with building for the future. We recognize that the systems that got us here must still be maintained, but they won’t get us to the next stage of growth.
- Become an expert in Spreedly infrastructure. You should be comfortable with and relish diving into an existing tech stack while understanding you may have to deal with skeletons along the way.
- While we are building for resilience, we acknowledge we still have steps to get there. You will be a key member in writing our resilience, reliability, and availability story.
- Maintain existing EC2 server instance deployments
- Containerize new and existing Spreedly applications
- Support PCI compliance by providing documentation such as network and systems diagrams
- Assist with the build-out of a container orchestration platform, to support a globally distributed system
- Use Terraform and/or Ansible to support Spreedly’s mission of delivering infrastructure-as-code
- Troubleshoot and fix system issues as they arise
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation to support 24/7 API operations
Requirements:
- Experience building, operating, and scaling systems on AWS with a focus on EC2 a
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