Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Modern Treasury · Remote · Remote · New York · San Francisco ·
COMPENSATION
$159k – $275k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote (US)
- AWS + Terraform
- Payment infrastructure
- High-volume systems
Join the infrastructure team at Modern Treasury to build the backbone for multi-rail money movement, including stablecoins and traditional payment rails. You will define architectural patterns and drive platform engineering efforts to support high-availability transaction processing.
As a staff individual contributor, you will guide technical direction across product and platform teams without direct managerial authority. The work involves reducing operational overhead and ensuring reliability for high-volume financial workflows.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture for AWS infrastructure, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines
- Standardize infrastructure-as-code to provision and scale ledger platforms
- Reduce operational overhead through improved tooling and engineering standards
- Optimize performance and observability for real-time payment infrastructure
- Define service ownership models aligning platform and product teams
- Contribute to security strategy for stablecoin integrations and compliance features
What you'll need
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure engineering
- Proven track record of setting technical direction without direct authority
- Experience building internal platforms that abstract complexity for product teams
- Strong background in designing and operating distributed systems
- Deep experience with AWS infrastructure at scale
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform
- Expertise in CI/CD systems, Docker, and production observability
- Experience with application security and scaling high-volume workloads
Nice to have
- Experience architecting infrastructure for multiple payment rails
- Background in scaling financial or high-volume transactional systems
- Understanding of payment mechanics such as ACH, wires, RTP, and cards
- Familiarity with security and risk standards for money movement
- Ability to balance immediate delivery with long-term infrastructure strategy
Stack
- AWS
- Terraform
- Docker
- Ruby on Rails
- React
- Postgres
- Buildkite
- GitHub
How you'll work
- Fully remote within the United States
- Based in San Francisco, New York, or eligible US states
- Staff individual contributor role