Highnote

Highnote

Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$230kDetected 111 days ago
PythonJavaDistributed SystemsBigQueryAWSGCPCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDAI OrchestrationCompensationResearchLeadership

About the role

  • Highnote connects merchants and businesses to the most advanced virtual payments platform, and we are just getting started.
  • Our mission is to help merchants and businesses grow by accelerating their digital transformation with innovative virtual payment products.
  • You will work in a highly collaborative and fast-changing environment, and play a key role in elevating the organization in every aspect of security, stability, and performance of our services.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with other teams to build an infrastructure as a platform that is secure, stable, cost-effective, and most importantly, empowers teams to iterate fast
  • Building and maintaining our cloud infrastructure stack and CI/CD pipelines
  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting for the infrastructure

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or software engineering
  • Experience with Kubernetes and/or Istio
  • Experience with one or more scripting/programming languages, preferably Java/Python
  • Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced and cross-functional environment
  • Proficiency using AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude Code) across the full software development lifecycle - including design, prototyping, development, testing, and iteration.

Nice to have

  • We're a team of payments obsessed individuals.
  • While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don't.
  • We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees.
  • We're small on hierarchy and big on growth.
  • We're a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team.
  • Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

Skills

  • Experience in the financial payments technology space
  • Expertise in Cloud networking
  • Experience with GCP technologies, such as Spanner, BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, etc
  • Experience in building large-scale, distributed systems
  • Why Highnote?
  • Highnote benefits
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • 100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents
  • 401k program
  • Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks paid leave for the birth parent, and up to 6 weeks paid leave for the non-birth parent

Compensation

  • In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$230,000.

Benefits

  • Equity in Highnote
  • Stipend to build out your home office; internet reimbursement
  • At Highnote we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based.
  • Our compensation packages are competitive based on robust market research and are a combination of a cash salary, equity, and benefits.

Company info

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