Infrastructure/Backend Engineer

Mlabs Ltd
New York, United States of America
12 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
$ 320K

Job location

New York, United States of America

Tech stack

Airflow
Automation of Tests
Code Generation
Programming Tools
Github
PostgreSQL
Uptime
Octopus Deploy
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Zero Trust Network Access
Grafana
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Backend
Kubernetes
Low Latency
Vertica
Terraform
Docker
Legacy Systems
Go

Job description

  • Infrastructure Migration & Optimization: Drive the comprehensive migration of applications and core services from legacy systems to a highly resilient, modern infrastructure stack.
  • Platform Self-Service & Orchestration: Mature and scale internal testing and validation tools, including local stack orchestration frameworks, allowing developers to execute applications flexibly and coordinate multiple automated agents simultaneously.
  • Latency Reduction: Collaborate closely with application engineering teams to optimize critical-path applications, identifying and resolving software and infrastructure bottlenecks to minimize latency and maximize financial edge.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Maintain, deploy, and manage 100% of the production environment utilizing IaC methodologies, ensuring absolute consistency, visibility, and automation across all layers.
  • Security & Reliability Engineering: Actively identify, mitigate, and minimize security attack vectors; coordinate contained chaos-engineering tests and system stress-tests using automated testing suites and advanced technical tools to guarantee maximum uptime.

Requirements

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Technical Foundations

  • Core infrastructure fundaments (security, networking, access control, etc).
  • Strong experience with kubernetes and kubernetes best practices.
  • Hands-on experience with Terraform, ArgoCD, Github Action, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana. Evangelist of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Experience writing backend applications in Golang
  • Experience with Postgres, Clickhouse, Dagster (Nice to have)

Professional Characteristics

  • Security-Minded: A proactive approach to zero-trust architecture, security configuration, and continuous system hardening.
  • Advanced Tool Leverage: High proficiency in leveraging advanced AI and development tools effectively-possessing the technical depth to rigorously validate outputs, establish guardrails, and avoid passive code generation.
  • Solution-Oriented & Autonomous: Ability to independently audit the existing stack, identify operational gaps, prioritize tasks based on commercial value, and execute solutions.
  • Collaborative Rigor: Strong alignment with a "disagree and commit" philosophy; maintaining a team-first mindset that prioritizes collective execution and continuous cross-functional learning alongside quantitative researchers and operations teams.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance, * Competitive Base Compensation: Highly attractive base salary ranging from $180,000 to $320,000, commensurate with experience.
  • Long-Term Incentives: Comprehensive equity ownership packages and token allocation structures.
  • Cutting-Edge Tech Stack: Access to premier infrastructure, hardware, and modern automated tooling.
  • Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage options.
  • Professional Growth: Direct exposure to institutional-grade trading platforms and collaborative environments alongside industry-leading technical and quantitative professionals.

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