About the company
Lazer is a world-class digital product studio composed of 80+ senior engineers and designers with backgrounds from companies like Apple, Google, Coinbase, and more. With our product experience, we have designed, engineered, and grown products from $0 to $200M in revenue. Clients seek out our help because we have the talent to deeply understand their needs and provide industry, technical, or product insights that are uniquely valuable to their efforts. Our clients range from early-stage startups and venture studios to recognizable commerce brands and exciting enterprises. Some of our notable clients include Google, Shopify, Coinbase, Alchemy, Hinge, OVO, DIMO, and more. We are a remote-first organization headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with employees worldwide. We believe in providing the best experience possible for all Lazerites by fostering a strong community through regular events, company vacations, competitive compensation, unlimited PTO, and more! Join Lazer and help us solve problems and build the next generation of products!
Job Summary
Who You Are:
š5-7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience with proven expertise building and operating systems at scale: data stores (PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB), data pipelines, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), DevOps tooling, and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) šTrack record working with high-volume, mission-critical systems such as websocket feeds, real-time data flows, payment rails, or distributed architectures handling millions of transactions šActively uses AI tooling to inform architecture decisions, enhance observability, and accelerate debugging workflows; strong experience with monitoring stacks (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD pipelines šProven consulting/contracting experience with strong client management skills and excellent communication abilities for explaining technical tradeoffs and infrastructure decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders šFinTech experience strongly preferred; crypto/web3 experience is a plus but not required. Self-sufficient professional who thrives with autonomy while managing client expectations and project timelines
What You'll Do:
šEmbed with client teams to advise and architect scalable infrastructure solutions for high-growth crypto and FinTech applications, leading strategy discussions and managing project timelines for complex system migrations and scaling initiatives šDesign and implement robust data pipelines, real-time streaming architectures, and distributed systems that handle demanding workloads across web3 applications and protocols šBuild and optimize cloud infrastructure with comprehensive observability solutions to ensure system reliability, performance, and rapid incident response šArchitect solutions that bridge traditional FinTech infrastructure with web3 systems - handling blockchain node management, indexing pipelines, high-frequency data feeds, and unique crypto-native requirements šUplevel client engineering teams through mentorship, improved DevOps practices, enhanced platform reliability, and help grow our team's capabilities by experimenting with cutting-edge infrastructure tools
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