Cloud Engineer (Kubernetes)

About Caliza

Caliza is building the infrastructure to power stable finance for everyone. Our mission is to empower everyone, regardless of their location or circumstances, to access instant and stable liquidity. Caliza enables everyone from startups to enterprises to offer real-time settlement and dollar accounts to their customers, creating opportunities for people to participate in developed economies and build wealth.

We are a global team with a global product and a global mission. We bring experience from Visa, Nubank, Mercado Libre, Goldman Sachs, Upstart, Silicon Valley Bank, Intuit, and Goldfinch.

Our Backers

Our mission is backed by top-tier VCs, including Better Tomorrow Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Valor Capital, and Quona Capital, as well as the founders of Rappi, Remesa Online, Azimo, Anchorage, Compound, Portal Labs, and many more!

About the Role

We’re looking to continue growing our globally distributed software engineering team. We’re looking for critical thinkers who enjoy owning and solving hard problems throughout the stack. We see Infra as a force multiplier and as the core of our ability to rapidly ship high-quality software. Broadly, you’ll be a part of the team responsible for any piece of infrastructure that we use to run, ship or monitor our software. In this role, you’ll be expected to think critically about infrastructure and how your work connects to the broader software ecosystem. You will play a key role in building, optimizing, and securing systems that power our platform while closely collaborating with engineering teams to integrate infrastructure and application code seamlessly.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Thinking critically about infrastructure and how your work connects to the broader software ecosystem
• Building, optimizing, and securing systems that power our platform
• Leveraging the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to define cloud infrastructure using code; familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices is a plus.
• Optimizing AWS infrastructure for cost and performance.
• Maintaining and enhancing our Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Building and automating deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Monitoring system performance and ensuring uptime with tools like New Relic.
• Collaborating with the development team to streamline application deployment.

What We Look For in You

• Hands-on experience with software development in one or more of the following: Java/Kotlin with Spring Boot, Python, or NodeJS.
• Strong software engineering experience paired with infrastructure expertise, with a solid understanding of how infrastructure interacts with application code.
• Proficiency in cloud infrastructure, with experience using AWS CDK as a significant plus.
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or back-end leaning infrastructure roles
• Excited about the prospect of building software that helps solve a global problem
• Deployment and operation experience on a public cloud provider
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (K8s)
• Experience with AWS and AWS CDK
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools like New Relic
• Experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions for CI/CD
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively
• Able to thrive at a startup, i.e., in a fast-paced environment with high levels of ambiguity
• Team player that’s ready to wear many hats!

Nice to Haves/Bonus Attributes

• Familiarity with Spring Boot applications.
• Exposure to additional monitoring tools or frameworks.
• Experience in securing and scaling cloud-native applications.
• Experience with CloudAMQP, MongoDB Atlas.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and equity compensation at a well-funded early-stage startup
• Fully remote first with in-person international team offsite as North and South America
• We care about your health & wellness — we offer medical, dental, vision, & life insurance, plus a monthly wellness stipend
• We care about your goals — growth opportuniti

Employment Type

• Remote

Salary

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