Experienced Infrastructure Engineer, Stytch
$185-225k
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
Be an early applicant
User infrastructure and passwordless authentication
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-225k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate friction on the internet while improving security.
Role
Who you are
- A collaborative environment with a tight feedback loop between the work you do and the impact it has on users
- Solving problems with pragmatic solutions — you know when to make trade offs between complexity and shipping quickly
- Building products that make developers lives easier — as an infrastructure engineer for a developer infrastructure company, what you build will have an immediate impact on our customers
- Shaping the culture and growing the team through recruiting, mentorship, and establishing best practices
- Learning new skills and technologies in a fast paced environment
- 5+ years as an infrastructure, site reliability or platform engineer
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, GitOps)
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g. Honeycomb, Datadog, ELK) and a compiled language (e.g. Go)
- Experience scaling cloud infrastructure including relational databases (MySQL preferred) and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Experience designing and building highly reliable systems at scale
What the job involves
- Stytch is the platform for user authentication
- We build infrastructure that sits in the critical path of our customer's applications
- As an Experienced Software Engineer, you'll work on designing and building back end systems and infrastructure to be secure and highly reliable for our customers globally
- Technical — build new, highly reliable services that our customers can depend on
- Ownership — advocate for projects and solutions that you believe in and ship them to production
- Leadership — level up your teammates by providing mentorship and guidance
- Go for backend services
- Node and Typescript for our web services
- Next.js and React/Typescript on the frontend
- Swift for our iOS sdk and Kotlin for the Android sdk
- We run our services on AWS with Kubernetes for orchestration
- We use Terraform and Crossplane for managing our infrastructure
- GRPC and protobufs for internal service communication
Our take
Passwords don’t typically offer the levels of security they once did, and we need more of them than ever - leading to poor security practices and a huge volume of subsequent data breaches. Some startups have emerged to help manage them; Stytch, however, is part of a growing cohort looking to cut them out entirely.
The idea is to make navigating digital space frictionless. To this end, Stytch has developed an out-of-the-box, easy-to-deploy version of about a dozen passwordless authentication solutions. It has seen a sharper increase in users and funding than rival startups like Magic, which it puts down to an API-first product, which is less limiting in its application than the widgets we’ve seen developed by earlier entrants to the space.
That alone, however, won’t be enough to push it ahead of other highly successful innovators in the space. Transmit Security has received record-breaking backing for its biometrics-led approach. This goes to show how far the market is betting on a passwordless future, and whilst Stytch’s line of attack is successful, it will nevertheless need to remain sharp in its development of new solutions.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$90m
SERIES B
Jul 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Total funding: $126m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance - Did we miss anything? Your health matters, more than anything else
- Parental leave - There's more than one way to be a parent. That's why we offer 12-16 weeks paid parental leave, whether birthing, adopting, or fostering
- Unlimited PTO - With a 3 week minimum, and at least one full week taken off per year
- Lunches & dinner in-office - Because clever brains need feeding
- Commuter benefits in SF & NYC - We’ll help you get from A > B when traveling to our offices
- And then some - Recurring wellness, professional development, music streaming + WFH + office supply stipends, company offsites, and regular hackweeks. Phew!
Company values
- Are we thinking big enough yet?: This is a question we always ask ourselves. Our potential is limited only by our team’s ambition, creativity, and work ethic. Ambitious cultures win, but they’re also far more fun than the alternative
- Fail fast: Failing fast means exploring new ideas and projects, and quickly testing their potential. Basically, we test something and if it doesn’t work, we move on. We’d rather fail quickly than let it drag on
- Own it: Sometimes, it’s easier to sweep something under the carpet and pretend you didn’t see it. But at Stytch, we’re building a culture of ownership, where if you see something that needs fixing, you take the necessary steps to correct the issue
- Constytchuents make each other & Stytch better: At Stytch we hire ambitious and empathetic humans. We're constantly improving together, through a culture of feedback. More than the sum of our parts, we're a single team with the shared goals of creating an awesome product and workplace
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Reed McGinley-Stempel
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Associate Consultant with Bain & Company, before moving into a Product Manager role at Plaid.
Julianna Lamb
(Co-Founder & CTO)A Stanford Computer Science grad, who went on to work as a Software Engineer at Strava and Plaid before becoming a Very Good Security Product Manager.
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