Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer - Financial Infrastructure & Platform Reliability

Location: Remote / Hybrid-friendly

Type: Full-time | Experience: 5+ years

Recital is building AI-powered financial operations infrastructure for enterprises. We help companies automate reconciliation, treasury workflows, settlement operations, transaction intelligence, and operational finance processes across banks, PSPs, and internal systems.

Our systems operate in environments where:

• uptime matters,
• correctness matters,
• observability matters,
• and operational resilience is critical.

We are building infrastructure at the intersection of: financial systems, distributed systems, AI-assisted operations, enterprise automation, and high-scale data processing.

The Role

We are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to help build and scale the infrastructure powering Recital’s financial operations platform. You will own and improve: cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, observability, reliability, scalability, security, and operational automation.

You will work closely with backend engineers and founders to ensure the platform is secure, resilient, and production-ready as we scale enterprise workloads. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building infrastructure from the ground up and solving operational challenges in high-reliability systems.

What You’ll Work On

Cloud infrastructure architecture, CI/CD pipelines, Docker and container orchestration, Infrastructure automation, Monitoring and alerting systems, High-availability backend systems, Security and access management, Database performance and reliability, Distributed systems operations, Disaster recovery and backup systems, Internal developer tooling, Production debugging and incident response

Responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable cloud infrastructure
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Improve deployment reliability and rollback strategies
• Implement observability and monitoring systems
• Optimize system performance, uptime, and scalability
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads
• Improve infrastructure security and operational controls
• Support backend teams with infrastructure tooling and automation
• Build infrastructure-as-code systems
• Troubleshoot production issues and reliability bottlenecks
• Help establish engineering operational best practices

What We’re Looking For

Strong Infrastructure & Cloud Experience

You should have strong experience with:

• AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure
• Docker and On-premises experience
• Terraform or Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Linux systems administration
• CI/CD systems
• Networking and cloud security

Observability & Reliability

Experience with:

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Datadog/Signoz
• ELK/OpenSearch
• distributed tracing
• incident management
• production debugging

Databases & Performance: Experience managing or optimizing: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, message queues/streaming systems, large-scale data processing workloads

Automation Mindset: We value engineers who: automate repetitive operations, improve developer velocity, reduce operational risk, and build systems that scale reliably.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering experience
• Experience supporting production fintech or high-scale systems
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes in production
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices
• Experience with security and compliance practices
• Startup or fast-paced engineering environment experience

Bonus Points

• Experience in fintech, banking, or payments
• Experience with financial infrastructure systems
• Experience operating AI/ML workloads
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or SQS
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• SOC 2 or ISO 27001 familiarity

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you may: improve deployment and rollback reliability, reduce infrastructure costs, strengthen observability and alerting, optimize production performance, improve security and operational controls, automate infrastructure provisioning, and help scale Recital’s platform for enterprise workloads.

Why Join Recital

• Build infrastructure powering real financial operations
• Solve difficult reliability and scalability problems
• High ownership and direct technical impact
• Small, highly technical team
• Opportunity to shape platform architecture early
• Competitive compensation + meaningful upside

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