Basis Technologies

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

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