Senior / Staff Infrastructure Engineer

As our first infrastructure engineer at Privy, you will help define what it means to write and deploy code to tens of millions of users across thousands of customers, all on a rapidly growing engineering team.

As a team that builds for other developers, we believe engineering and product are inextricably connected. You'll be surrounded by a team with as much of a commitment to building and operating infrastructure as you are. We value intuitive interfaces, simplicity, and rapid iteration. Above all, we are building a company together to ship products that users love.

What you'll do

Manage and architect multi-tenant infrastructure that serves billions of requests every month

Design our build and deploy systems across the stack, from SDKs to apps to high-traffic APIs to complex secure enclaves, and more – all for a team that ships daily

Drive observability across our product and help keep our systems up and performant in our role in the most critical parts of our customers' stacks

Advocate for making the right technical investments at the right time in a company with ever-evolving technical needs

What we're looking for

Knowledge of Typescript or Python, Terraform or similar, Cloudflare, and AWS infrastructure

Experience in building highly available production systems

An understanding of modern web and API development best practices

Experience building delightfully simple developer experiences

4+ years of experience

Bonus points if you have...

An ability to quickly learn new skills and take on new challenges

Experience at rapidly growing startups and the flexibility it requires

Excitement about authentication, security, or in web3

An understanding of EC2 Nitro Enclaves and ASGs / Kubernetes

Engineering at Privy

Engineering at Privy is not just about writing world-class code. We create software that turns complex technical systems into delightful developer tools. We assemble tried-and-true primitives into intuitive, responsive APIs and beautiful interfaces. We believe in open-source work and transparency with our teammates and users. We encourage each other to think big, run experiments and follow our curiosity so we can build better tooling that lets developers shine and empower their users.

Privy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of background, identity, or status.