About the job
Slash Financial develops business banking infrastructure tailored for real operational demands. Since its founding in 2021, the company has processed over $10 billion in annual business transactions across several industries. With $100M in Series C funding from investors including Ribbit Capital, Khosla Ventures, Goodwater Capital, NEA, and Y Combinator, Slash continues to grow its product offerings and market presence. The San Francisco headquarters fosters a collaborative, in-person work environment.
Role overview
The Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer will take a hands-on role in scaling and strengthening the core platform behind Slash’s banking products. This position involves designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure to support rapid company growth and high transaction volumes. The work spans AWS cloud operations, Terraform, Kubernetes, and related systems. This engineer will help shape infrastructure strategy and make key decisions on performance, observability, security, and deployment.
What you will do
- Lead the development of next-generation database, real-time workflow, and container orchestration infrastructure.
- Scale and enhance the Kubernetes (EKS) platform, CockroachDB clusters, Kafka (MSK), Temporal workflows, and ElastiCache Redis.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to establish and scale best practices using AWS ALB, WAF, Route 53, OpenSearch, S3, and Vercel.
- Create and maintain abstractions in Terraform and Pulumi to streamline architecture and assist product teams.
- Improve the speed and reliability of CI/CD pipelines.
- Tackle complex scaling, performance, and low-latency challenges within a monolithic architecture.
Location
This role is based in the San Francisco office and supports an in-person work culture.
