Description:

The Staff Systems Engineer is a seasoned professional with at least 10 years of experience in cloud and infrastructure, specializing in finance or crypto within the technology industry.
Responsibilities include leading problem-solving, driving coding excellence, ensuring comprehensive testing, and adopting scalable and secure software implementations for solutions in areas like trading, swapping, regulatory compliance, fraud detection, and automation.
Paxful is a people-powered marketplace for moving money globally, with over 12 million users across 170+ countries and access to crypto and local currencies using more than 450 payment methods.

Requirements:

Past experience within the fintech sector or understanding of financial regulations, compliance, and security best practices.
Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in financial technology contexts.
Ability to manage, coordinate, and prioritize work with multiple team members for delivering quality software on time.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other departments.
Must be located in the Americas or Europe (between time zones UTC-8 and UTC+3).
Solid track record of over 10 years demonstrating mastery of cloud and infrastructure management, mainly in high-availability production applications using AWS or Azure.
Extensive experience in working with container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
Solid experience in maintaining release pipelines using automated CI/CD pipelines and provisioning tools.
Demonstrated proficiency in working with Linux administration.
Proven knowledge in configuring, maintaining, and monitoring cloud infrastructure and resources using IaaC like Terraform.
Expertise in incident management and risk mitigation of auto-scalable applications and resources in distributed regions.
Understanding of Git and branching models for coordination with team members.