Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Paxos
Platform Engineering
$179.5-250k
+ Equity and bonus. 15% Annual Salary
Blockchain infrastructure for financial services
Be an early applicant
Blockchain infrastructure for financial services
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$179.5-250k
+ Equity and bonus. 15% Annual Salary
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable the movement of any asset, at any time, in a trustworthy way.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles
- Deep expertise in public cloud platforms, especially AWS, with hands-on experience in services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration — you’ve run production workloads and understand cluster management, scaling, and troubleshooting
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
- Solid scripting or programming skills in languages like Python, Bash, or Go, with a strong focus on automation
- Working knowledge of managed database services like Amazon RDS, Aurora, or PostgreSQL is a plus — but infrastructure is your main game
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a systems-thinking mindset
- Strong communicator who thrives in collaborative, remote-first teams
What the job involves
- The Site Reliability Engineering team at Paxos builds and maintains the secure cloud infrastructure that supports our mission to reshape the financial industry
- They enhance engineering efficiency by creating standardized frameworks across product lines and develop self-service tools to streamline processes, making it easier for teams to get things done
- As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll serve as a technical leader and architect within the Platform Engineering team - shaping the design, reliability, and scalability of Paxos’ next-generation infrastructure platform
- You’ll lead initiatives that define how Paxos builds, operates, and scales its cloud systems - from Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes automation to observability and multi-region resilience
- Your work will directly influence how we meet our commitments to customers, partners, and regulators by ensuring our platform is secure, compliant, and resilient by design
- Architect, build, and operate resilient, scalable, and self-healing cloud infrastructure on AWS
- Lead the evolution of Kubernetes and platform services to enable secure, automated, and multi-region operations
- Define and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, AWS CDK, and Crossplane to ensure consistency, security, and auditability
- Drive automation across provisioning, configuration, and monitoring pipelines to reduce manual effort and operational risk
- Establish and champion reliability, observability, and performance standards across Tier-1 services, ensuring alignment with regulatory and partner requirements
- Partner with product engineering to enhance CI/CD velocity, service resilience, and visibility through shared tooling, SLOs, and platform patterns
- Lead incident reviews, root-cause analyses, and systemic reliability improvements, embedding learnings into runbooks and design practices
- Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, performance, and fault tolerance, driving data-driven operational excellence
- Mentor and upskill engineers, shaping architectural direction and influencing design decisions across multiple teams
- Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for Paxos’ infrastructure platform, aligning platform scalability with business growth and compliance objectives
Our take
Paxos develops regulation-compliant infrastructure services for companies looking to add features like crypto brokerages or branded stablecoins to their customer offerings. Its focus on regulatory compliance, and its status as one of only three national trusts born in the crypto ecosystem, gives it an edge in building a unique and global network of enterprise customers.
Cryptocurrency remains a risky sector, so a company at the forefront of crypto regulation is proving highly attractive to a growing sector of enterprises tentatively dipping their toes in. It is pushing ahead of competitors as one of the largest crypto/blockchain startups with substantial funding and an impressive valuation.
Its growth has been backed up by material results, too. It has established relationships with firms like Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Mastercard. PayPal also leverages Paxos on its backend to enable its users to buy, sell and hold crypto. This proven success with an expanding roster of big-name clients is very impressive, as is the company's success in receiving approval to convert to an OCC National Trust Bank.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2020
$142m
SERIES C
Total funding: $535.3m
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Charles Cascarilla
(CEO & Co-founder)Previous Co-founder and Partner at Cedar Hill Capital Partners for 10 years. Current Partner at Liberty City Ventures and Founding Board Member of the Association for Digital Asset Markets, alongside working at Paxos.
Rich Teo
(CEO Asia & Co-founder)Previous Financial Analyst at Citi for 2 years before becoming a Principal / Senior Analyst at Cedar Hill Capital Partners. Has served as CEO of Asia at Paxos for 7 years.
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