About the role

Senior Platform Engineer at MoonPay improving cloud platform resiliency and reliability. Collaborate with teams to implement solutions using Kubernetes and monitor performance metrics.

Responsibilities

In the **short term** we need to increase the resiliency and reliability of our current PaaS solution with things such as:
Improving the maintainability of our infrastructure as code
Building dashboards, monitoring & alerting mechanisms with Datadog
Load testing and performance tuning our production services
Lifecycling and maintenance of our Kubernetes clusters
In the **medium to long term** you’ll get to:
**Implement** new and shiny technologies on top of Kubernetes as you see fit to ensure our tech can scale with the business.
**Develop** and integrate solutions with a bias for automation in order to improve and maintain reliability across the production estate and make recovery easier.
**Design** and track metrics for site uptime and performance ensuring high levels of visibility are maintained.
**Own** the deployment pipelines and continuously improve our monitoring and alerting capabilities.
**Collaborate** closely with all other engineering functions to provide timely feedback from our environments.
**Support** Engineering on their journey to deliver better software, faster and more safely (think “It’s OK to deploy on Fridays” 😎)

You have strong systems administration skills, know the difference between a container and a virtual machine, and know your way around a Linux terminal
You have platform engineering/SRE experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies
You have either had experience with some of our tech stack or are confident you can cross train and up skill quickly
You have experience working in a regulated industry
You are confident working with and guiding developers on monitoring and logging of complex systems at scale
You have worked on complex projects
You reflexively reach for AI agents to assist in researching and solving your problems
You can work collaboratively with different teams i.e. Security, Data, Engineering
You want to forge and own MoonPays reliability & recovery processes
You’ve got at least a basic understanding of complex reliability structures, theories, principles, and best practices
You have worked with JavaScript codebases and frameworks e.g Typescript, Node.JS and React

Competitive salary package
Equity package: We believe financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
Pay for performance equity bonus: Those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
Moonshot award. We honor exceptional impact - 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant.
Unlimited holidays: We give you the autonomy to choose when to work (and when to switch off)
Hybrid working schedule: Work fully remotely or your nearest Moonbase, the choice is yours
Private Healthcare benefits: To protect you and your loved ones
Enhanced parental leave: So you can spend more time with your loved ones without a second thought
Annual training budget: We support your training journey every step of the way
Home office setup allowance: Create the home office of your dreams
Remote working allowance: Those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
Monthly budget to spend on our products and zero fee crypto transactions: Cultivate your inner DEGEN
Employee referral programme: Great people know great people, refer them to receive 10K in USDC
Regular remote company offsites: Meet your colleagues regularly for high impact in person sessions and hackathons
Working in a disruptive and fast-growing company where excellence is rewarded