Senior Systems Engineer

About Us:

Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.

Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.

Product Offering:

Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:

Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.
Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.
Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.
Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.
Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.

About the Role:

As a Senior Systems Engineer at Spreedly, you will lead ambitious projects, drive deep architectural discussions and decisions, and mentor other team members within the engineering organization. A strong candidate for this role can bring a deep understanding of what it takes to build highly available, performant, and durable cloud architecture and be responsible for the building and scaling of complex infrastructure.

Our infrastructure team regularly works with internal engineering and product teams, as well as external vendors, in pursuit of improving our developer experience and satisfying our customer needs. We seek someone who wants to bring a broad set of technical skills, a development and automation-focused mindset, and a diverse view to our team as we expand our infrastructure to support our goals.

Responsibilities::
• Global Infrastructure: Design and scale the infrastructure powering a globally distributed payments orchestration service.
• Hybrid Operations: Maintain existing EC2 server instance deployments while leading the transition to containerized services.
• Container Orchestration: Assist with the build-out of container orchestration platforms to support a globally distributed system.
• Security & Vulnerability Management: Analyze potential threats and vulnerabilities to embed security standards, including WAF and DDoS protections, into the infrastructure.
• Infrastructure as Code: Use Terraform and Ansible to deliver consistent infrastructure-as-code.
• Compliance & Resilience: Support PCI compliance through meticulous systems documentation and network diagramming.
• On-Call Support: Participate in an on-call rotation to support 24/7 API operations.

Requirements: :
• Experience building, operating, and scaling systems on AWS with a focus on EC2 and ECS
• Experience with DevOps and/or GitOps and an understanding of CI/CD methods
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (we use Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Nomad, etc.)
• Ability to analyze infrastructure threats and implement standards, such as Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and DDoS mitigation.
• A solid understanding of Amazon Linux and Ubuntu distributions and their ecosystems
• Exposure to or experience with multi-region cloud environments to support global availability
• Experience with databases (CockroachDB, Postgres, or similar) and middleware infrastructure (Kafka)
• A desire to instrument everything using platforms like Datadog, Sentry, and SumoLogic
• Experience with containers and container orchestration (Nomad, Docker, etc.)
• The ability to deliver solutions in support of applications written in Ruby on Rails and Elixir

Additional Skills We Value::
• Experience in payments or other regulated industries (PCI, SOC2, HIPAA, etc.)
• Familiarity with Edge CDN-type services

We Offer US-based Employees::
• Competitive salary + Equity
• Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid options
• Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
• Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
• Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
• $1,000 annual professional development stipend
• Access to company-paid professional coaching service
• Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees

We champion the ethical, creative use of AI—if you’re someone who pairs human judgment with modern AI tools to work smarter and drive bigger impact, you’ll thrive here.

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Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.

Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does - handling payment data - finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.

At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment, and we are not set up to support remote employees who reside in New York. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in that country.

We appreciate your interest in our company. Because of the high volume of resume flow, we may only respond to those candidates that we think will be a potential fit.

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