Site Reliability Engineer, Highnote
€90-150k
+ Equity
Card issuer and payments services
Job no longer available
Card issuer and payments services
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
€90-150k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To address limitations in the growing embedded finance market.
Role
Who you are
- Containerization & Orchestration: Proficiency with Kubernetes (K8s). Experience with Istio service mesh is a plus
- Cloud Providers: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS
- Databases: Working knowledge of Spanner or Postgresql, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB; experience optimizing queries and database performance
- Programming Languages: Proficiency in Python or similar languages for tooling and automation
- CI/CD with GitHub: Experience setting up and managing GitHub Actions or similar pipelines
- Monitoring & Observability: Familiarity with tools like Datadog or similar
- Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with Terraform or similar tools
- Performance Testing: Hands-on experience with ghz, Artillery, JMeter or similar tools
- Communication & Collaboration: Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex ideas clearly to various stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience in the financial payments technology space
- Expertise in Cloud networking
- Experience with GCP technologies, such as Spanner, BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, etc
- Experience in building large-scale, distributed systems
- Experience in Java
- Experience in build tools such as Bazel
What the job involves
- We are seeking an Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, maintain, and optimize the mission-critical infrastructure that powers our platform
- In this role, you’ll be responsible for ensuring reliability, performance, and security across our environments, managing incidents, and contributing to our CI/CD pipelines
- You will collaborate with various teams to uphold best practices and drive continuous improvement
- Infrastructure / Security On-Call (10%)
- Serve as an on-call resource for infrastructure and security teams
- Quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues across multiple teams, ensuring minimal downtime and impact
- Incident Management (5%)
- Coordinate and facilitate incident response activities, including incident commander and root-cause analyses
- Performance Optimization (10%)
- Monitor and review key performance metrics (e.g., CPU spikes, slow queries, high-latency service calls)
- Optimize databases (Spanner, Elastic, MongoDB) for enhanced performance and reliability
- Propose and implement improvements in performance testing frameworks
- Core Infrastructure (25%)
- Oversee monthly security updates and patches, collaborating with security teams to maintain compliance
- Participate in defining and implementing core infrastructure improvements
- Service Infrastructure (50%)
- Lead the design and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub to enable efficient, reliable, and secure deployments
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement automated testing, build pipelines, and deployment strategies
- Develop tooling and automation to improve service scalability, availability, and reliability
Our take
Highnote is revolutionizing the world of branded payment cards, offering businesses of all sizes the ability to issue customizable cards for customers or employees. Whether for in-store shopping, loyalty programs, or corporate expenses, Highnote makes the process quick and affordable - something that was once only accessible to the largest companies.
Founded by former BrainTree and PayPal executives, Highnote has quickly gained traction in the fintech space. With significant funding and a focus on innovation, the company is positioning itself to surpass competitors like Marqeta. By leveraging the latest technology, Highnote has built a modern platform that enables businesses to create and manage payment cards more efficiently.
With a fresh $90M in funding, new acquiring capabilities, and a strong backing from major investors and partners, Highnote is clearly making its makr. As it continues to grow its platform and expand its global reach, the company is ready to be a key player in the future of embedded finance.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2025
$90m
SERIES B
Jul 2021
$42.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $144m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Parental Leave
- 401k Plan
- Paid Lunch During Work Days
- Work From Home Stipend
- Team Events and Offsites
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
John MacIlwaine
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CTO of Morgan Stanley's Private Client Group, and Head of Global Development at Visa.
Kin Kee
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously founded KCUBE SOlutions. They also spent 4 years at Lending CLub as the VP of Technology, and 3 years at Braintree as the Director of Architecture.
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