Senior Infrastructure Engineer

The Discipline

The Discipline Platform Engineering at MoonPay is responsible for providing a resilient, secure, production-ready platform that enables MoonPay to safely deploy applications and services in a self-serve, repeatable manner. We believe that Infrastructure Engineers should support both our product delivery and operational teams by surfacing data from our production environment and driving meaningful change based upon what we learn from it.

Current Tech Stack

• Google Cloud Platform to host our services
• Postgres as our core database
• Redis for caching
• DataDog for logging and monitoring
• ArgoCD for continuous deployment on Kubernetes
• GitHub to manage our source code and continuous integration
• TypeScript as our programming language of choice

What You’ll Do

• In the short term we are focused on enhancing our PaaS tooling:
• Improving the maintainability and usability of our Infrastructure-as-code
• Adding self-service functionality for deploying and operating our infrastructure
• Lifecycling and maintenance of our Kubernetes clusters and GCP infrastructure
• Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring & alerting mechanisms with Datadog
• In the medium-to-long term you’ll get to:
• Implement new and shiny technologies on top of Kubernetes as you see fit to ensure our tech can scale with the business.
• Develop and integrate solutions with a bias for automation in order to improve and maintain reliability across the production estate and make recovery easier.
• Design and track metrics for site uptime and performance ensuring high levels of visibility are maintained.
• Collaborate closely with all other engineering functions to provide timely feedback from our environments.
• Engage with new business units and acquisitions to understand, support and enhance their infrastructure.
• Support Engineering on their journey to deliver better software, faster and more safely (think “It’s OK to deploy on Fridays” 😎).

Skills

• Strong systems administration skills
• Know the difference between a container and a virtual machine
• Know your way around a Linux terminal
• Platform engineering/SRE experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies
• Experience working in a regulated industry
• Experience working with JavaScript codebases and frameworks e.g TypeScript, Node.JS and React

Values

• B - Be Hungry
• L - Level Up
• O - Own It
• C - Crypto Curious
• K - Kaizen

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary package
• Equity package: We believe financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
• Pay for performance equity bonus: Those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
• Moonshot award. We honor exceptional impact - 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant
• Unlimited holidays: We give you the autonomy to choose when to work (and when to switch off)
• Hybrid working schedule: Work fully remotely or your nearest Moonbase, the choice is yours
• Private Healthcare benefits: To protect you and your loved ones
• Enhanced parental leave: So you can spend more time with your loved ones without a second thought
• Annual training budget: We support your training journey every step of the way
• Home office setup allowance: Create the home office of your dreams
• Remote working allowance: Those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
• Monthly budget to spend on our products and zero fee crypto transactions: Cultivate your inner DEGEN
• Employee referral programme: Great people know great people, refer them to receive 10K in USDC
• Regular remote company offsites: Meet your colleagues regularly for high impact in person sessions and hackathons
• Working in a disruptive and fast-growing company where excellence is rewarded

Commitment To Diversity

We are committed to creating a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination. That’s why we are committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and are a proud equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including, but not limited to, hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, and leave of absence.