Sezzle
Financially empowering the next generation of consumers.
Principal Engineer – Infrastructure
Full-stack EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2016H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
16 days ago
Salary
$200K - $300K / year
Bachelor Degree15 yrs expEnglishAWSDistributed SystemsKubernetesMicroservicesMy SQLPostgre SQLRDBMSSQLGo
Job Description
• Architect, upgrade, design, and build scalable infrastructure solutions leveraging Kubernetes, AWS, RDS (MySQL/Postgres), and modern distributed patterns.
• Help drive the infrastructure and engineering teams’ roadmaps, leading us to higher levels of reliability, recoverability, and scalability.
• Find and fix issues across our systems before they become issues in production, through tooling, alerts, AI, collaboration with teams, whatever it takes.
• Drive capacity planning, benchmarking, and work with the team to stress test our systems, find bottlenecks, and prepare for further growth in the business.
• Define, maintain and enforce SLAs and alerts across our infrastructure.
• Help Lead Sezzle’s AI enablement efforts, identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to enhance infrastructure reliability, developer productivity, and internal tooling.
• Build in consistency and scalability across a distributed microservices architecture while maintaining performance and reliability.
• Establish and evolve engineering best practices for observability, security, and CI/CD across teams.
• Mentor engineers and champion a culture of learning, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and deliver results that matter.
Job Requirements
- 15+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience, including significant backend development and production engineering experience.
- Deployed significant changes to a production application or infrastructure configuration in the past 30 days.
- Strong proficiency in Golang, with experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- Deep expertise with SQL-based RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience optimizing schema and queries for performance at scale.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems design patterns (e.g., transactional outbox, event-driven architecture and stream processing, queues).
- Demonstrated ability to bring new ideas forward, influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, volunteer hours and sabbatical
- Life, STD/LTD, medical, dental and vision insurance
- Highly discounted LifeTime gym membership
- 401k with match
- Collaborative fun co-workers
- The opportunity to join the fastest growing FinTech alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals
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