Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.
As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Superstate, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining highly reliable, scalable infrastructure that powers our financial products. You'll architect robust systems that ensure our platforms deliver exceptional performance, availability, and security at scale. You’ll be wearing many hats across general devops, security, observability, and reliability and help lead these initiatives.
What you'll do
Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for our web applications and blockchain systems
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code
Develop comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure system reliabilityLead incident response efforts and conduct post-incident reviews to improve system resilience
Implement security best practices across all infrastructure and deployment processes
Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize application performance and reliability
Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure and improve service reliability
Automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil through tooling and process improvements
Manage capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud resources
What you'll bring to the team
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
8+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure experience
Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure management
Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)
Strong background in systems engineering, networking, and distributed systems
Expertise in containerization and orchestration (ECS, EKS)Proficiency in languages (Java, Go, Rust, or similar) for automation and tooling
Deep understanding of security principles and secure infrastructure practices
Experience with high-availability systems and disaster recovery planning
Exceptional problem-solving skills with a reliability and security focused mindset
Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies
Microservices architecture and service decomposition strategies
Cloudflare optimization and security configurations
Github Actions workflows and deployment strategies
Compliance automation for financial services (SOC2, ISO, PCI DSS)
Chaos engineering/resilience testing and reliability best practices
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation
Equity ownership
Flexible vacation policy
Paid parental leave
Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
Professional development and security certification budget
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.
Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.