Senior Infrastructure Engineer

MoonPay

Senior Infrastructure Engineer developing resilient and scalable platform solutions for MoonPay's digital currency services. Enhancing PaaS tooling and collaborating with cross-functional teams for operational success.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $170,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Google Cloud PlatformJavaScriptKubernetesLinuxNode.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Enhance PaaS tooling by improving maintainability and usability of Infrastructure-as-code
Add self-service functionality for deploying and operating infrastructure
Lifecycle and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters and GCP infrastructure
Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring & alerting mechanisms with Datadog
Implement new technologies on top of Kubernetes to ensure scalability
Develop and integrate solutions with automation for reliability
Design and track metrics for site uptime and performance
Collaborate closely with engineering functions to provide feedback
Engage with new business units to enhance their infrastructure
Support Engineering in delivering better software safely

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have strong systems administration skills, know the difference between a container and a virtual machine, and know your way around a Linux terminal
You have platform engineering/SRE experience at leading startups or fast growing tech companies
You have either had experience with some of our tech stack or are confident you can cross train and up skill quickly
You have experience working in a regulated industry
You are confident working with and guiding developers on monitoring and logging of complex systems at scale
You have worked on complex projects
You reflexively reach for AI agents to assist in researching and solving your problems
You can work collaboratively with different teams i.e. Security, Data, Engineering
You want to forge and own MoonPays reliability & recovery processes
You’ve got at least a basic understanding of complex reliability structures, theories, principles, and best practices
You have worked with JavaScript codebases and frameworks e.g Typescript, Node.JS and React

Benefits

Comp & perks

💰Competitive salary package
🤝 Equity package: We believe financial freedom starts with our employees, so all employees have ownership at MoonPay
📈 Pay for performance equity bonus: Those who drive outsized outcomes receive outsized rewards
🚀 Moonshot award. We honor exceptional impact - 10 employees twice a year, each earning a $250,000 equity grant.
🏝 Unlimited holidays: We give you the autonomy to choose when to work (and when to switch off)
🌍 Hybrid working schedule: Work fully remotely or your nearest Moonbase, the choice is yours
🩺 Private Healthcare benefits: To protect you and your loved ones
🍼 Enhanced parental leave: So you can spend more time with your loved ones without a second thought
📚 Annual training budget: We support your training journey every step of the way
🪑 Home office setup allowance: Create the home office of your dreams
👛 Remote working allowance: Those working fully remotely get a little extra for utilities
💰 Monthly budget to spend on our products and zero fee crypto transactions: Cultivate your inner DEGEN
💰 Employee referral programme: Great people know great people, refer them to receive 10K in USDC
✈️ Regular remote company offsites: Meet your colleagues regularly for high impact in person sessions and hackathons
🚀 Working in a disruptive and fast-growing company where excellence is rewarded

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure-as-codeKubernetesGCPDatadogLinuxJavaScriptTypescriptNode.jsReactautomation

Soft Skills

collaborationfeedbackguidanceproblem-solvingreliabilityownershipcommunicationadaptabilityteamworkscalability