Senior Infrastructure Engineer
About The Position
MoonPay is a unified payments platform for digital currency. We make it easy for anyone, anywhere, to buy, sell, swap and pay in digital currencies as easy as sending an email. That simplicity is intentional, our focus is reducing complexity so people can participate confidently, without needing to be crypto experts. We power the entire flow between fiat and crypto end to end, with compliance, identity checks, fraud prevention, and settlement all built in. This end-to-end approach reflects how we work internally: with accountability, rigor, and trust built into everything we ship. Proven at scale Trusted by over 30 million customers and over 500 ecosystem partners, our secure, enterprise-grade platform is driving mainstream crypto adoption worldwide. Behind those numbers are millions of real people and organizations relying on MoonPay every day. We collaborate with innovative brands and projects to build secure, scalable solutions for a blockchain-powered future. This is an opportunity to help shape systems, not just scale them. And we’re committed to doing it right. Fully licensed in the U.S. and regulated across the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, because trust and compliance are non-negotiable. But we’re just getting started. We’ve launched a consumer app that makes crypto accessible, intuitive, and usable for everyone, and it’s growing fast. We’re iterating every day to make it the best it can be. If you believe financial freedom should be for everyone. If you believe in building a fairer, more open financial system - we want you with us. To build systems that benefit all, we need contributions from all, regardless of background. Come build the future of payments and the decentralized economy with MoonPay. Let’s make financial freedom and autonomy the new normal. The Discipline Platform Engineering at MoonPay is responsible for providing a resilient, secure, production-ready platform that enables MoonPay to safely deploy applications and services in a self-serve, repeatable manner. We believe that Infrastructure Engineers should support both our product delivery and operational teams by surfacing data from our production environment and driving meaningful change based upon what we learn from it.
Requirements
- Strong systems administration skills
- Know the difference between a container and a virtual machine
- Know your way around a Linux terminal
- Platform engineering/SRE experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies
- Experience working in a regulated industry
- Confident working with and guiding developers on monitoring and logging of complex systems at scale
- Worked on complex projects
- Can work collaboratively with different teams i.e. Security, Data, Engineering
- At least a basic understanding of complex reliability structures, theories, principles, and best practices
- Worked with JavaScript codebases and frameworks e.g Typescript, Node.JS and React
Nice To Haves
- Had experience with some of our tech stack or are confident you can cross train and up skill quickly
- Reflexively reach for AI agents to assist in researching and solving your problems
Responsibilities
- Improving the maintainability and usability of our Infrastructure-as-code
- Adding self-service functionality for deploying and operating our infrastructure
- Lifecycling and maintenance of our Kubernetes clusters and GCP infrastructure
- Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring & alerting mechanisms with Datadog
- Implement new and shiny technologies on top of Kubernetes as you see fit to ensure our tech can scale with the business.
- Develop and integrate solutions with a bias for automation in order to improve and maintain reliability across the production estate and make recovery easier.
- Design and track metrics for site uptime and performance ensuring high levels of visibility are maintained.
- Collaborate closely with all other engineering functions to provide timely feedback from our environments.
- Engage with new business units and acquisitions to understand, support and enhance their infrastructure
- Support Engineering on their journey to deliver better software, faster and more safely (think “It’s OK to deploy on Fridays” 😎).
- Forge and own MoonPays reliability & recovery processes
Benefits
- Competitive salary package
- Equity package: We believe financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
- Pay for performance equity bonus: Those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
- Moonshot award. We honor exceptional impact - 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant.
- Unlimited holidays: We give you the autonomy to choose when to work (and when to switch off)
- Hybrid working schedule: Work fully remotely or your nearest Moonbase, the choice is yours
- Private Healthcare benefits: To protect you and your loved ones
- Enhanced parental leave: So you can spend more time with your loved ones without a second thought
- Annual training budget: We support your training journey every step of the way
- Home office setup allowance: Create the home office of your dreams
- Remote working allowance: Those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
- Monthly budget to spend on our products and zero fee crypto transactions: Cultivate your inner DEGEN
- Employee referral programme: Great people know great people, refer them to receive 10K in USDC
- Regular remote company offsites: Meet your colleagues regularly for high impact in person sessions and hackathons
- Working in a disruptive and fast-growing company where excellence is rewarded
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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