Bastion

Financial Infrastructure

InfrastructureEngineer

$200–260k Boise, Idaho, United States; United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Infrastructure Engineer at Bastion. Skills: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability. Ramp on AWS architecture, Terraform patterns, Kubernetes setup, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack. Ship a small infrastructure improvement: Terraform module refactor, monitoring enhancement, or CI/CD optimization”

What You'll Achieve.

Multiple safe infrastructure changes deployed with verification; You understand our core infrastructure patterns and can navigate Terraform, K8s, and AWS resources; Updated documentation and/or infrastructure-as-code improvements that help the team; A delivered infrastructure improvement that enhances reliability, reduces cost, or improves developer velocity; You're a go-to person for your infrastructure domain; A multi-sprint infrastructure delivery that improves system-wide reliability, security, or developer experience; Clear before/after improvements in deployment speed, cost efficiency, or operational stability; Patterns and tooling that enable engineers to ship faster and safer

Industry & Context.

Financial Infrastructure
Problems you'll solve

pragmatic tradeoffs on reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements

Eligibility Requirements

US remote, office in New York City

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

AWS architecture, Terraform patterns, Kubernetes setup, CI/CD pipelines, observability stack

Nice to Have

Go, TypeScript/Node.js, Rust, ECS, EKS, Lambda, EC2, GitHub Actions, container registries, automated testing and deployment pipelines, Postgres (RDS), Redis, Kafka, Snowflake, Temporal, AWS Nitro Enclaves, IAM policies, secrets management, Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch, Incident.io

What You'll Do.

Ramp on AWS architecture

and observability stack

Ship a small infrastructure improvement: Terraform module refactor

monitoring enhancement

or CI/CD optimization

or documentation for the infrastructure areas you touch

Take ownership of an infrastructure area: CI/CD pipelines

or AWS security/networking

Lead a medium-scope project: implementing a reusable Terraform module

right-sizing service resources

or improving deployment reliability

Strengthen system reliability with better metrics

and failure recovery mechanisms

Lead a platform-wide initiative: single immutable image pipeline

infrastructure standardization

database performance optimization

or security hardening

Shape infrastructure direction with design docs

and mentoring engineering teams

Partner with engineering

and compliance teams to make pragmatic tradeoffs on reliability

and regulatory requirements

Building reusable Terraform modules that standardize service deployment patterns across dev

Implementing single immutable image pipelines with built-in security scanning and promotion workflows

Right-sizing Kubernetes workloads and autoscaling policies to reduce cost while maintaining reliability

Designing and implementing database monitoring and performance optimization strategies

Hardening AWS infrastructure with security best practices: IAM policies

Building observability infrastructure that gives engineers fast feedback on system health and performance

Improving CI/CD reliability and speed through better caching

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams

Communication Scope

mentoring engineering teams

Process & Methodology

Lead a medium-scope project, Lead a platform-wide initiative, design docs, RFC proposals

Full Job Description

ABOUT BASTION Bastion builds regulated financial infrastructure for modern businesses. Bastion's full stack product suite covers stablecoin issuance, custodial wallet infrastructure, and global asset conversion rails, with the flexibility to deploy individual capabilities or combine them end-to-end. Bastion's regulated foundation underpins a compliance-first approach to risk management, ensuring the integrity and security of all financial activity within its systems. Bastion holds the appropriate licenses for its own operations, but can also act as a service provider, offering compliance and financial operations support under our customers’ licenses. WORK TO BE DONE Instead of a list of requirements, we want to give you a directional look into the first 30, 90, and 180 days on the job. We are a startup, so the pace is fast and the specific work will change. You need to be okay with that. If you think this is something you can handle, we will be excited to speak with you. We are open to US remote and have an office in New York City. FIRST 30 DAYS: LEARN THE INFRASTRUCTURE, SHIP CONFIDENTLY - Ramp on AWS architecture, Terraform patterns, Kubernetes setup, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack - Ship a small infrastructure improvement: Terraform module refactor, monitoring enhancement, or CI/CD optimization - Add runbooks, alerts, or documentation for the infrastructure areas you touch - Outcomes - Multiple safe infrastructure changes deployed with verification - You understand our core infrastructure patterns and can navigate Terraform, K8s, and AWS resources - Updated documentation and/or infrastructure-as-code improvements that help the team BY 90 DAYS: OWN AN INFRASTRUCTURE DOMAIN AND RAISE THE BAR - Take ownership of an infrastructure area: CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, Kubernetes platform, or AWS security/networking - Lead a medium-scope project: implementing a reusable Terraform module, right-sizing service resources, or improving deployment reliabili

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