Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Tech Platform

Who We Are

Imprint is building a next-generation co-branded credit card company to serve America’s great brands. Some of our partners include H-E-B, Turkish Airlines, Brooks Brothers, and Eddie Bauer. Imprint is backed by Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and Thrive Capital. We are focused on building a brilliant team who want to change payments and who embody our Operating Principles.

The Team

The Tech Platform Engineering Team at Imprint is at the forefront of democratizing access to cutting-edge technologies, empowering teams across our organization to innovate and excel. Driven by our vision to redefine the Fintech landscape, our team is committed to building a secure, highly available infrastructure and arming our engineers with a comprehensive development toolchain, empowering them to bring to life world-class products swiftly.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and improve cloud infrastructure solutions that power our production environment.
• Implement and manage AWS-based infrastructure, focusing on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Operate and optimize Kubernetes clusters in production, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and management.
• Enhance observability and monitoring for infrastructure health and performance using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Optimize networking solutions, including service meshes (like Istio) to improve service-to-service communication and security.
• Support and enhance database infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability for both SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL Aurora, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Collaborate with the Staff Infrastructure Engineer and engineering teams to deliver infrastructure improvements aligned with business and engineering priorities.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, helping to build more resilient systems.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and high-availability strategies, leveraging chaos engineering principles where applicable.
• Advocate for best practices in infrastructure design, automation, performance tuning, and security.
  
  

What We Look For

• 6 years of hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure in a production environment.
• 6 years managing AWS infrastructure, with deep experience in core AWS services.
• 4 years of experience operating Kubernetes in production, including cluster management and workload optimization.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform (or other IaC tools), with experience in creating reusable modules and enforcing infrastructure best practices.
• Experience managing cloud networking solutions, including working with VPCs, load balancers, and service meshes (e.g., Istio).
• Hands-on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL Aurora, Redis, and DynamoDB.
• Proficiency in system monitoring and observability, with experience in tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, working effectively across teams.
• A strong sense of ownership and urgency, with a drive to continuously improve systems and processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  
  

Nice to have

• Relevant certifications such as CKA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional)
• Track record of managing mission-critical, 24x7 production software systems
  
  

Imprint is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Imprint is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Imprint welcomes talented individuals from all backgrounds who want to build the future of payments and rewards. If you are passionate about FinTech and eager to grow, let’s move the world forward, together.

Compensation Range: $170K - $220K