
Senior Systems Engineer, DSP
Basis Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $117,629 - $183,506 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available distributed infrastructure supporting the Basis DSP platform
- Operate and optimize systems processing hundreds of billions of daily transactions
- Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code practices to improve operational efficiency
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across critical production systems
- Perform performance analysis and system tuning across Linux, networking, and application layers
- Lead incident investigation, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements
- Ensure security, resiliency, and scalability across infrastructure and services
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong Linux systems expertise (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS or similar)
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack)
- Strong understanding of system scalability and high availability architectures (clustering, partitioning, load balancing)
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues across system, network, and application layers
- Programming or scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Experience operating database systems (MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting systems
- Experience managing infrastructure in cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and on-premises
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- flexible work week
- 401k/RRSP matching
- mental health support
- paid sabbaticals
- generous parental leave
- flexible work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
LinuxTerraformAnsibleSaltStackPythonBashMySQLMongoDBCassandraAWS
Soft Skills
communicationincident investigationroot cause analysisreliability improvementsoperational efficiencycollaboration