Senior Production Engineer

Lightspark is creating the Money Grid—modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide. We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions. Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.

About the role

We are looking for engineers who thrive in entrepreneurial environments, enjoy writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence. We’re looking for people who are passionate about building world-changing software and solving complex problems to further our mission, as well as having fun along the way.

As a Production Engineer, you’ll build and integrate new experiences for Lightspark’s customers, and optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of Lightspark infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, scaling, securing and maintaining production services
• Writing or improving code frameworks (e.g. monitoring, logging, database access, authentication)
• Building and optimizing core infrastructure to support new features and functionality
• Joining the on-call rotation, supporting the Software Engineers, and debugging the hardest problems

Requirements

• 5+ years of Production / Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering
• Experience writing high quality and well tested code
• Experience communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions (i.e. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
• Experience programming in high-level languages such as Python is preferred
• Openness to relocate to Los Angeles, California, or ability to travel to the LA office on a monthly basis while working remotely

CS degree, or equivalent is ideal but not required. We appreciate and acknowledge that some of the best talent comes from non-traditional backgrounds.

Pay

Compensation Range: $200K - $238K