SeniorInfrastructureEngineer

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