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Software Engineer - Infrastructure & DevOps
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New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listed on 2026-02-01
Listing for:
Basic Capital
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-02-01
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
About Basic Capital
Basic Capital is a fintech company disrupting America’s $1T retirement industry by building the mortgage for retirement, unlocking market ownership, and making wealth accessible to every American. Our mission is to create products, platforms, and a credit marketplace that power a fundamentally new retirement system.
Our founding team includes leaders from Goldman Sachs, Uber, Block, Stripe, and Robinhood. We’re backed by top investors such as Lux Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Box Group, SVAngel, Inspired Capital, and Henry Kravis. Based in SoHo, NYC, we’re assembling a lean, high-performance team committed to reducing wealth inequality.
For more information, visit Basic Capital’s website.
You will- Be a founding member of the Infrastructure & Security team, responsible for the platform reliability, security posture, and compliance readiness that enables Basic Capital to scale with confidence
- Own Basic Capital's ongoing SOC 2 Type II compliance, implementing security controls, documenting processes, and working with auditors to achieve and maintain certification
- Design and implement comprehensive observability systems including logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing across our infrastructure
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code that enable fast, safe releases
- Optimize system performance, latency, and cost efficiency as we scale to serve more customers and handle increasing transaction volumes
- Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS) including networking, security groups, IAM policies, and compliance-related configurations
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, Cloud Watch, IAM)
- Proven track record implementing security best practices and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar)
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Strong understanding of networking, security principles, and encryption
- Experience with observability platforms and building monitoring/alerting systems (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Cloud Watch)
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go) for automation
- Experience with secrets management, key rotation, and encryption at rest/in transit
- Familiarity with penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, and security incident response
- Experience with disaster recovery planning and business continuity
- Experience in fintech or early-stage technology companies
- Experience working in Kotlin backends
- Experience with Temporal for asynchronous workflow orchestration
- Passionate about solving big social problems with pragmatic solutions
- Aptitude for complexity and curiosity for financial markets
- Enjoys learning new technologies and selecting the right tool for each job
- Adaptable and open to contributing across the tech stack as the team evolves
- Autonomous, high agency, accountable, and thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, working effectively in cross-functional teams
- Excited to be a part of an in-office team
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