Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

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About Highnote

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an all in one card issuer processor and program management platform. We give digital-first organizations the flexibility to easily issue and process payment cards that accelerate business growth and profitability.

About Highnote

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an all in one card issuer processor and program management platform. We give digital-first organizations the flexibility to easily issue and process payment cards that accelerate business growth and profitability.

We've raised $104M+ and grown our team to 120+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we've managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states.

Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we're helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don't exist yet.

We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we're unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen.

The Opportunity

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. Our infrastructure will be across multiple continents over the next few years to support the ever growing business needs. The core infrastructure team owns the management of GCP, AWS, and various third party cloud services, including all of compute, storage, networking, container orchestration frameworks, and infrastructure pipeline. 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.

What you'll be doing :

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

What we are looking for

5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or software engineering

Strong experience working with GCP or AWS

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

Strong skills in troubleshooting issues in a highly distributed environment

Bonus 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?

We're a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization.

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. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity.

We're backed by Oak HC / FT, Costanoa Ventures, and XYZ Ventures. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

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

Equity in Highnote

Stipend to build out your home office; internet and phone 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. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual salary range for applicants is $170,000-$230,000.

Please note that positions located in San Francisco are hybrid and include core working days of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office. We provide flexible work options based on distance from our downtown SF office. Highnote believes in the power of face-to-face, personal connection. As a result, we prioritize in-person candidates.

Highnote is a diverse and inclusive company committed to growing a diverse and inclusive team. We invite people from all backgrounds and identities to apply. We do not discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by US federal state or local laws, or the laws of the country or jurisdiction where you work. Additionally, we encourage everyone to share which pronouns you wish for us to use when addressing you (i.e. : she / her, he / him, they / them, etc).

Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Employment type Full-time

Job function Job function Information Technology

Industries Software Development

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