Site Reliability Engineer, Highnote
€90-150k
+ Equity
Card issuer and payments services
Open for applications
Card issuer and payments services
101-200 employees
Open for applications
€90-150k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the future of embedded finance experiences for businesses everywhere.
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.
Now, the company is focused on expanding its market presence and developing its platform even further. With strategic partnerships with industry giants like Visa to its name, Highnote will be able to offer an even wider range of card options and financial services, giving customers more ways to manage payments and expenses in today's fast-paced business world.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$25m
CONVERTIBLE
Sep 2021
$54m
SERIES A
Total funding: $90.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible Paid Time off: We encourage team members to take the time off they need to recharge and be at their best
- 100% health, dental, vision coverage: We cover your entire monthly premiums, and 75% for spouses and dependents
- Equity, own a piece of Highnote: We want everyone at the company to share in our collective success
- 12-6 weeks paid parental leave: Birth parents receive 12 weeks paid leave, and up to 16 weeks away from work. Non-birth parents receive 6 weeks paid leave
- 401k Retirement Savings: We want to help you invest in your future
- Stipend for WFH: We give all employees a monthly stipend for their work-from-home expenses
- Free lunches during office days: If you work out of San Francisco, you receive free lunches when working from the office
- Team events and offsites: We value team bonding and collaboration in-person when applicable
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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