Senior Production Engineer
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AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBGoKubernetesLinuxMongoDBPythonTerraform
Senior Staff Production Engineer
Lightspark
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $255,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesPythonRustTerraform
About the role
- Setting the technical direction for Lightspark’s production infrastructure and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams.
- Architecting and scaling secure, highly available distributed systems that support global, 24/7 financial transactions.
- Designing next-generation infrastructure platforms and frameworks (observability, deployment, security, compute, networking) that other engineers build on.
- Leading cross-functional, company-wide initiatives to improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Anticipating future scale, regulatory, and security needs—and driving long-term solutions before they become bottlenecks.
- Mentoring other engineers, elevating technical judgment, and contributing to a culture of craftsmanship and accountability.
- Owning and improving high-severity production operations, incident response, and postmortems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in Production Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related infrastructure-focused roles.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and operate large-scale distributed systems with strong security, reliability, and regulatory considerations.
- Strong software engineering skills and ability to produce high-quality, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Proven leadership of complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams or domains.
- Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.).
- Proficiency with high-level programming languages such as Python (Go, Rust, or similar languages are a plus).
- Strong communicator who can influence technical and strategic decisions across engineering and leadership.
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent experience; non-traditional backgrounds are equally valued.
Benefits
- Health insurance coverage including medical, dental, and vision
- Competitive salary
- Stock options
- Company paid life insurance
- 20 paid vacation days a year, as well as paid holidays
- Flexible work schedule
- Matching 401k
- FSA/DCA accounts
- Generous family leave policies
- Annual bonuses
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Production EngineeringSite Reliability Engineeringlarge-scale distributed systemsinfrastructure-as-codecloud infrastructurehigh-quality codemaintainable codewell-tested codeprogramming languagessecurity
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringinfluencingstrategic decision-makingcross-functional collaborationoperational excellencetechnical judgmentaccountabilityanticipation of future needs
Certifications
Bachelor’s in Computer Science
