Infrastructure, Backend Engineer

MLabs

Infrastructure/Backend Engineer modernizing financial technology infrastructure for a leading firm in New York City. Focused on building high-performance, scalable systems with Infrastructure as Code methodologies.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $180,000 - $320,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerGoGrafanaKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresPrometheusTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Infrastructure Migration & Optimization: Drive the comprehensive migration of applications and core services from legacy systems to a highly resilient, modern infrastructure stack.
Platform Self-Service & Orchestration: Mature and scale internal testing and validation tools, including local stack orchestration frameworks, allowing developers to execute applications flexibly and coordinate multiple automated agents simultaneously.
Latency Reduction: Collaborate closely with application engineering teams to optimize critical-path applications, identifying and resolving software and infrastructure bottlenecks to minimize latency and maximize financial edge.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Maintain, deploy, and manage 100% of the production environment utilizing IaC methodologies, ensuring absolute consistency, visibility, and automation across all layers.
Security & Reliability Engineering: Actively identify, mitigate, and minimize security attack vectors; coordinate contained chaos-engineering tests and system stress-tests using automated testing suites and advanced technical tools to guarantee maximum uptime.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Trading Industry Pedigree: Strong professional background within traditional trading firms, market makers, proprietary trading shops, or institutional financial services.
Orchestration & CI/CD: Expert-level proficiency with Kubernetes, including deployment best practices, cluster management, networking, and access control. Hands-on expertise with ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Docker is required.
Infrastructure as Code: Proven experience as an IaC evangelist utilizing Terraform to manage complex multi-environment architectures.
Backend Development: Strong proficiency in writing, optimizing, and maintaining backend systems and critical-path microservices using Golang.
Data Architecture & Observability: Production experience managing high-throughput databases such as Postgres and Clickhouse. Comprehensive familiarity with Prometheus and Grafana for full-stack observability, alerting, and metrics collection.
Security-Minded: A proactive approach to zero-trust architecture, security configuration, and continuous system hardening.
Advanced Tool Leverage: High proficiency in leveraging advanced AI and development tools effectively—possessing the technical depth to rigorously validate outputs, establish guardrails, and avoid passive code generation.
Solution-Oriented & Autonomous: Ability to independently audit the existing stack, identify operational gaps, prioritize tasks based on commercial value, and execute solutions.
Collaborative Rigor: Strong alignment with a "disagree and commit" philosophy; maintaining a team-first mindset that prioritizes collective execution and continuous cross-functional learning alongside quantitative researchers and operations teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Base Compensation: Highly attractive base salary ranging from **$180,000 to $320,000**, commensurate with experience.
Long-Term Incentives: Comprehensive equity ownership packages and token allocation structures.
Cutting-Edge Tech Stack: Access to premier infrastructure, hardware, and modern automated tooling.
Comprehensive Health & Wellness: Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage options.
Professional Growth: Direct exposure to institutional-grade trading platforms and collaborative environments alongside industry-leading technical and quantitative professionals.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure MigrationPlatform OrchestrationLatency ReductionInfrastructure as CodeSecurity EngineeringKubernetesTerraformGolangPostgresClickhouse

Soft Skills

Solution-OrientedAutonomousCollaborativeProactiveTeam-first mindset