DevOps Principal Engineer

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Paxful

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bitcoin • buy bitcoin • sell bitcoin • accept bitcoin • cryptocurrency

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

₿ Crypto

Description

• Paxful is the world’s largest people-powered marketplace, connecting users across countries to move, save, and store money. • The DevOps Principal Engineer is responsible for overseeing the strategy, architecture, and operations of Paxful’s DevOps environment. • This role requires deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, security protocols, and monitoring tools, alongside exceptional leadership skills to guide a high-performing team. • The ideal candidate ensures reliability, scalability, and compliance for Paxful’s cryptocurrency services while driving team collaboration and technical innovation. • Develop and execute a comprehensive DevOps strategy to ensure scalability, uptime, and security for Paxful’s cryptocurrency platforms and services. • Oversee the design, deployment, and optimization of AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring high performance, cost efficiency, and alignment with cloud-native architectural best practices. • Drive the adoption and implementation of observability tools enabling proactive monitoring and rapid issue resolution. • Conduct regular security audits, enforce compliance with cryptocurrency regulations, and implement data protection best practices. • Report key DevOps metrics, operational performance updates, and technical strategies to senior leadership, aligning team efforts with company goals.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related fields, with 3+ years in leadership roles, demonstrating the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams, prioritize tasks, and manage escalations. • Advanced expertise in AWS services, including EC2, S3, Elasticache, ECS, DynamoDB, Route 53, WAF, SNS, CloudWatch, and ELB, for designing and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud architectures. • Strong knowledge of DevOps best practices, including GitOps, CI/CD methodologies, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation. • Proficiency in workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow and event-driven architectures using Kafka and AWS Lambda. • Expertise in monitoring and visualization tools, including Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, and Apache Superset, to ensure comprehensive system visibility and actionable insights. • In-depth knowledge of security protocols and tools, such as KMS, Certificate Manager, CloudTrail, and WAF, for safeguarding infrastructure and ensuring compliance. • Familiarity with cryptocurrency-specific systems, including wallet security, transaction processing, and compliance standards, with an emphasis on adhering to global regulations.

Benefits

• We encourage a remote-first approach for geographically distributed teams, being open to skilled professionals from around the world. • Competitive salary • Fully remote work environment • Flexible working hours with a 4-hour overlap in Eastern Time (EST) • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies on impactful projects • Collaborative, innovative, and supportive work culture • Opportunity to mentor and lead a team of talented engineers • Professional growth and development opportunities