Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Want to help everyday Americans invest and build wealth Financial inequality is increasing and too many people are getting left behind. At Stash we are passionate about democratizing wealth creation through education advice and products that help customers achieve greater financial freedom.

Join our Infrastructure team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer and play a key role in building and scaling Stashs platforms. Youll drive initiatives that strengthen reliability design secure and resilient systems and lead automation efforts that make our infrastructure faster and more efficient in a high-growth environment.

What youll do:

• Design build and operate AWS networking and infrastructure including VPCs Transit Gateway PrivateLink routing and security boundaries.
• Lead Kubernetes (EKS) platform operations scaling clusters optimizing workloads and ensuring reliability of critical services.
• Automate infrastructure workflows with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to increase speed and consistency.
• Configure and maintain Nginx for high-availability load balancing and secure traffic management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across systems networks and applications (DNS routing TCP container orchestration).
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable cloud solutions and embed best practices for reliability.
• Continuously improve observability using Datadog and related tooling to monitor performance and proactively prevent outages.
• Drive architectural decisions that strengthen system reliability security and scalability in AWS.

What were looking for:

• 8 years of experience in site reliability engineering or similar roles.
• Deep expertise in AWS networking (VPC design Transit Gateway PrivateLink routing security groups NACLs).
• Strong experience with Nginx (configuration tuning scaling troubleshooting).
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8s) and Amazon EKS.
• Advanced skills in AWS infrastructure setup management and optimization.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform Terraform Cloud).
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with system monitoring (Datadog) and logging/archiving practices.
• Extensive experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven track record with containerized microservice architectures (Docker).
• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience working in PCI or other regulated environments.

Gold Stars:

• Advanced network security design experience with segmentation strategies zero-trust architectures and firewall policy management.
• Performance optimization expertise analyzing latency and throughput tuning DNS resolution load balancing and packet-level troubleshooting.
• Observability leadership hands-on with Datadog dashboards metrics strategy log pipelines and tracing at scale.
• Resiliency and chaos engineering designing fault-tolerant architectures and running game days to validate recovery plans.
• Compliance and governance experience prior work in regulated industries (e.g. PCI SOC 2 HIPAA) beyond just technical enforcement.
• Cross-team leadership ability to influence architecture decisions across product and platform teams and mentor engineers on reliability and networking best practices.
• Startup and scale-up experience familiarity with rapid growth environments where infrastructure must evolve quickly while staying reliable.

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Our Commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion

We proudly celebrate the unique qualities that make you you 365 days a year and not just because its the right thing to do or good for business. We embed the principles and practices of diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) into all that we do to prioritize people a Stash core value and to ensure Stashers of all backgrounds and experiences can be their authentic selves.

We are also proud to be the first and only venture-backed fintech to join the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion and as an Equal Opportunity Employer Stash is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds.

If you require any reasonable accommodations to make your application process more accessible please reach out to

Helping You Invest in Yourself

• Comprehensive total rewards package comprising compensation (salary and equity) and health care benefits
• Complimentary subscription to Stash account
• Remote-first work policy Live and work where you feel the most productive whether that is in your home in an office.
• Flexible PTO
• Work-from-home equipment stipends; home internet subsidy
• Paid Parental Leave (offerings for birth giving and non-birth giving parents) Primary & Secondary
• Enhanced health and wellness benefits through One Medical Gympass and Maven Health

External Recognition for Stash

• Benzingas 2023 Best Brokerage for Beginners and Best Robo-Advisor Awards
• Qorus-Accentures 2023 Banking Innovation Awards
• USA Today and Statistas 2023 Top 500 Best Financial Advisory Firms
• Comparablys Best Company Awards: Best Places to Work Best Company Outlook and Best Engineering Team for Diversity Women Culture and more! (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Award: Best Personal Finance App (2023)
• BuiltIns Best Places to Work ()
• Forbes Fintech 50 ()
• Best Digital Bank Finovate Awards (2020)
• Tearsheet Challenge Awards Best Banking Card Product - Stock-Back Card 2020
• LendIt Fintech Innovator of the Year ()

Salary Range: $149180 - $222040

The base salary range represents the reasonably anticipated low and high end of the salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors such as the candidates qualifications skills experience and competencies as well as internal equity and alignment with market data for companies of our size and industry.

**No recruiters please**