Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Stash
$149.2-222k
+ Equity + ESPP
Banking and investment app
Be an early applicant
Banking and investment app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$149.2-222k
+ Equity + ESPP
201-500 employees
Company mission
Stash's mission is to empower everyday Americans to build wealth by making investing simple and affordable.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or similar roles
- Deep expertise in AWS networking (VPC design, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, routing, security groups, NACLs)
- Strong experience with Nginx (configuration, tuning, scaling, troubleshooting)
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) and Amazon EKS
- Advanced skills in AWS infrastructure setup, management, and optimization
- Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Terraform Cloud)
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go
- Experience with system monitoring (Datadog) and logging/archiving practices
- Extensive experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines
- Proven track record with containerized microservice architectures (Docker)
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience working in PCI or other regulated environments
Desirable
- Advanced network security design — experience with segmentation strategies, zero-trust architectures, and firewall policy management
- Performance optimization expertise — analyzing latency and throughput, tuning DNS resolution, load balancing, and packet-level troubleshooting
- Observability leadership — hands-on with Datadog dashboards, metrics strategy, log pipelines, and tracing at scale
- Resiliency and chaos engineering — designing fault-tolerant architectures and running game days to validate recovery plans
- Compliance and governance experience — prior work in regulated industries (e.g., PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA) beyond just technical enforcement
- Cross-team leadership — ability to influence architecture decisions across product and platform teams, and mentor engineers on reliability and networking best practices
- Startup and scale-up experience — familiarity with rapid growth environments where infrastructure must evolve quickly while staying reliable
What the job involves
- Join our Infrastructure team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and play a key role in building and scaling Stash’s platforms
- You’ll drive initiatives that strengthen reliability, design secure and resilient systems, and lead automation efforts that make our infrastructure faster and more efficient in a high-growth environment
- Design, build, and operate AWS networking and infrastructure, including VPCs, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, routing, and security boundaries
- Lead Kubernetes (EKS) platform operations — scaling clusters, optimizing workloads, and ensuring reliability of critical services
- Automate infrastructure workflows with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to increase speed and consistency
- Configure and maintain Nginx for high-availability, load balancing, and secure traffic management
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across systems, networks, and applications (DNS, routing, TCP, container orchestration)
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable cloud solutions and embed best practices for reliability
- Continuously improve observability using Datadog and related tooling to monitor performance and proactively prevent outages
- Drive architectural decisions that strengthen system reliability, security, and scalability in AWS
Our take
Founded in 2015, Stash was created in response to studies showing that 44% of Americans don’t invest in stocks, 70% of households don’t have a long-term financial plan, and 68% are afraid to retire. Stash offers beginner retail investors the tools to invest small amounts in stocks and exchange-traded funds. Its aim is to help new investors learn the ropes, offering preference-tailored guidance and digestible investment summaries.
Its service, although pricier than competitors like Wealthfront and Acorns, remains competitive through its highly educational and beginner-friendly focus. This is a lucrative feature for Stash, given the recent surge in first-time and amateur retail investors. The company has more than 6 million customers, and its assets under management total about $3 billion.
Its focus on long-term profit over day trading is refreshing in the retail investment app market. It could prove especially attractive to its younger customer base (average age 29), who are on the whole trending away from traditional legacy banking and looking towards new, innovative financial platforms.
Stash was not immune to the market turmoil of 2022 which particularly impacted the fintech sector, and was forced to restructure. Having streamlined the business, it received major funding and a leadership change in 2023. Stash is now setting its sights on an acquisition or public offering in the near future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
May 2025
$146m
SERIES H
Oct 2023
$40m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $656.9m
Company benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or U.K
- Learning & Development stipend
- Excellent medical, dental & vision insurance
- Unlimited time off
- Paid parental leave
Company HQ
Garment District, New York, NY
Leadership
Brandon Krieg
(Co-Founder)Brandon started his career as a Partner at EdgeTrade, where he spent 9 years, before working as MD of Knight Capital Group for half a decade. He left his role as Head of Global Electronic Execution at Macquarie Securities Group to co-found Stash in June 2015.
Ed Robinson
(CEO & Co-Founder)They joined Macquarie Group in 2005, where they worked for 10 years. Initially starting in private banking, they progressed from Asian Sales Trader to European Sales Trader and then ultimately Head of Sales, Electronic Execution. They left this role in 2015 to co-found Stash.
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