Infrastructure Reliability Engineer
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Job Location:
Williamsburg, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Whop
Whop is a financial technology company on a mission to provide the world with sustainable income. Our vision is to create the worlds largest internet market where people can create connect and transact all from a single platform. Whop enables individuals and businesses to accept payments launch ventures and engage with others across the network.
Today Whop facilitates over $3 billion in annual payouts to people in 144 countries. Growth continues to accelerate with gross transaction volume increasing roughly 25% month over month.
Whop has raised hundreds of millions from institutional investors like Insight Bain Capital Ventures A* and Peter Thiel including a recent strategic investment from Tether the largest stablecoin company in the world.
Our current team is made up of young passionate entrepreneurs who grew up on the internet over 75% built a business before joining Whop including 53 former founders and 30 who scaled past $1M in revenue. Product leadership includes backgrounds from Meta and Robinhood.
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About the role
When millions of people run their businesses on what you ship downtime is not an option. Reliability is a core tenet of our infra team. Youll be building the systems that allow us to scale another 100x while maintaining the reliability that our users livelihoods depend on. Youll ship real outcomes with judgment taste and a steady hand under pressure.
What youll do:
- Own uptime for our infrastructure
- Upgrade our observability and monitoring stack to better understand system health
- Improve systems around error collection and real-time alerting
- Design staged rollout and rollback systems to improve safety of production deployments
- Harden our infrastructure against real-world threats and implement guardrails that keep production safe
- Speed up performance of critical systems: better infra code optimization caching etc.
- Work with product teams to make development faster and safer
- Create standards around real-time event collection for use in insights and experimentation
What you need
- Minimum of 5 years experience operating production infrastructure for high-availability systems
- Deep observability experience including metrics logs tracing and alerting
- Security engineering competence
- Excellence with databases queues and caching strategies
- Strong computing and networking fundamentals
- Experience with deploying production software safely
- Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment with imperfect information
- Strong debugging instincts under pressure
Nice to have
- Payments/fintech experience
- Experience designing SLO programs end-to-end (error budgets alert routing paging policy)
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Strong programming ability in a backend language
- Take ownership from the root cause through permanent fix
Benefits Overview
- Minimum cash comp of $250000K a competitive equity package
- Unlimited PTO with full health vision dental coverage
- Free access to Equinox
- $9k annual rent stipend if you live within 4 blocks of the Brooklyn office
- Lunch & dinner paid for Monday thru Friday
- The latest Macbook Pro & tech accessories
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
About Company
Whop is your home on the internet. You can discover interesting communities, meet cool people, and even start a business.
