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Superstate · 3 months ago

Staff Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

New York City

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Superstate is a company focused on creating investment products leveraging blockchain tokenization to enhance efficiency in finance. As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, ensuring performance, availability, and security of financial products while collaborating with engineering teams.

BlockchainFinanceFinancial Services

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for our web applications and blockchain systems

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code

Develop comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure system reliability

Lead incident response efforts and conduct post-incident reviews to improve system resilience

Implement security best practices across all infrastructure and deployment processes

Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize application performance and reliability

Establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure and improve service reliability

Automate operational tasks and reduce manual toil through tooling and process improvements

Manage capacity planning and cost optimization for cloud resources

Qualification

AWS cloud servicesInfrastructure as codeContainerizationOrchestrationSecurity principlesSystems engineeringMonitoringHigh-availability systemsDatabase administrationObservabilityProblem-solving skillsCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

8+ years of professional software engineering or infrastructure experience

Extensive experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure management

Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Strong background in systems engineering, networking, and distributed systems

Expertise in containerization and orchestration (ECS, EKS)

Proficiency in languages (Java, Go, Rust, or similar) for automation and tooling

Deep understanding of security principles and secure infrastructure practices

Experience with high-availability systems and disaster recovery planning

Exceptional problem-solving skills with a reliability and security focused mindset

Preferred

Microservices architecture and service decomposition strategies

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, etc.)

Database administration and optimization (PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS RDS)

AWS security services (GuardDuty, Security Hub, WAF, Shield, Config)

Cloudflare optimization and security configurations

Github Actions workflows and deployment strategies

Compliance automation for financial services (SOC2, ISO, PCI DSS)

Chaos engineering/resilience testing and reliability best practices

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Equity ownership

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance

Professional development and security certification budget

Company

Superstate

Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions.

Founded in 2023

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://superstate.co

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$18M

2023-11-15Series A· $14M

2023-06-15Seed· $4M

Leadership Team

Dean Swennumson

Co-Founder, Head of Operations

Jim Hiltner

Co-founder, Head of Business Development

Recent News

Crowdfund Insider

Forward Industries, Superstate Introduce Tokenized FWDI Public Shares on Solana

2025-12-20

Business Wire

Forward Industries and Superstate Launch Tokenized FWDI Public Shares on Solana

2025-12-18

Ledger Insights - blockchain for enterprise

Superstate launches direct issuance for tokenized public shares

2025-12-11

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