Infrastructure Engineer

DebtBook is an industry-leading fintech software platform that revolutionizes the way local governments, higher education, healthcare organizations and their finance teams work. Our powerful, cloud-based software helps these organizations manage all aspects of their debt, leases, and subscriptions, streamline financial reporting, and share information simply with others.

We are looking for an engineer with 1-2 years of experience building and maintaining reliable infrastructure. This engineer will work on the team that owns our entire infrastructure posture and will help develop new features while maintaining a secure, reliable, and compliance focused environment. We need someone who has a general idea of how Terraform works and with experience designing and understanding complex tradeoffs in a production setting. Familiarity with software development practices is a significant plus.

• Our infrastructure is developed using Terraform and is hosted on AWS. We aim to maintain a high level of compliance with various security and government standards. We also build command line tooling using the Go programming language.
• Our team primarily works asynchronously via Slack and Gitlab issues with meetings over Zoom when high bandwidth discussion is required.
• Our team coordinates with the engineering team to ensure that the infrastructure meets the needs for feature development and developer experience.

• Participate in all stages of managing production infrastructure: system design and engineering, issue writing/breakdown, produce terraform configuration, review changes and deployments. Engage in monitoring and coordinating in resolving incidents that the team experiences.
• Own the quality of your work. Deliberate and extensive system design and discussion with the team to ensure your approach and solution fits into the larger team vision and work.
• Work across the engineering organization to identify and coordinate on solutions to improve the function of the DebtBook application and infrastructure.

• Good written communication skills
• Experience and understanding of Unix-like operating systems
• Understanding of standard AWS features and offerings
• Basic experience with Terraform
• General scripting abilities
• Experience developing software a plus

• Annual salary range is $100,000-120,000 based on experience
• This role is eligible for an up to 5% annual bonus
• This role will receive a stock option grant

• Remote possible, with a preference for Charlotte, NC

• 30 min - Introduction Call with Director of Infrastructure
• 1 hr - Behavioral Interview with Directors of Infrastructure and Engineering
• 90 min - Technical Interview with Infrastructure Engineer
• Our technical assessment is a discussion about infrastructure design and various failure scenarios that the candidate is to consider and provide a walkthrough of how they would approach the scenario.
• 90 min - Onsite with members from the Product, Design, and Engineering teams