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Overview
Join Cointracker as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the platform powering crypto tax and AI-driven personal finance tools. Enjoy a competitive salary and equity in a fully remote team. CoinTracker is on a mission to unlock everyone's financial potential so they can build the life they want. We started with crypto, building the tax and portfolio tools trusted by millions to make digital assets simple. Today, we're going further with Nino, our AI-powered financial planning product that puts expert-level guidance within reach of everyone, not just the wealthy. We're a fully distributed team.
What you'll do
- •Operate and scale the GKE clusters powering the consumer webapp, with KEDA-driven autoscaling tied to product-dependent load metrics.
- •Manage the database infrastructure that keeps tax season survivable: primary instances, read pools, connection pooling, and PSC networking.
- •Maintain Redis caching layers for session and data caching at scale.
- •Operate GitOps pipelines and image-driven promotion workflows from staging to production.
- •Develop and maintain Helm charts for consistent deployments across environments.
- •Implement observability with OpenTelemetry — monitors, dashboards, metric routing with PII stripping, and Pub/Sub export.
- •Secure the platform with Cloudflare integration, Cloud Armor WAF, CloudOrigin CA TLS certificates, and GCP Secret Manager via External Secrets.
- •Partner with backend and AI teams to stand up staging environments so they can run experiments and ship new features without waiting on infra.
Conditions
- •The starting salary for this position is between $165,750 - $195,000 USD.
- •Candidate's location does not impact the posted salary range.
- •The actual compensation offered will be based on a variety of job-related factors including relevant skills, education, and experience.
- •This position also includes equity in CoinTracker and benefits like medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, and PTO.
Role-agnostic
- •Opportunity Alignment: Genuine conviction about our mission, the opportunity we're going after, or the technical problems we're solving.
- •High Agency: You identify what matters, take it on, and own outcomes.
- •Exceptional Collaboration: Build high-trust partnerships that make team members want you on hard projects.
- •Critical Thinking: Find the real question beneath the surface one, weigh alternatives, and show clear judgment under uncertainty.
Required
- •Deep hands-on experience with GCP — GKE, AlloyDB/CloudSQL, Redis, Pub/Sub, GCS, Secret Manager, IAM
- •Strong Terraform skills — module development, state management, infrastructure-as-code discipline
- •Kubernetes proficiency — cluster management, Workload Identity, autoscaling, PodDisruptionBudgets, node pools
- •Database operations at scale — PostgreSQL/AlloyDB read pools, connection pooling (PgBouncer), capacity planning
- •High-traffic webapp experience — handling seasonal traffic spikes, zero-downtime deploys, rapid rollback
- •Monitoring and observability — alerting strategies, SLO/SLI definition