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Basic Capital

Software Engineer - Infrastructure & DevOps

New York Office$180k–$275kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Join Basic Capital's founding Infrastructure & Security team to build and maintain the cloud platform powering a fintech retirement solution. You'll drive platform reliability, security compliance (SOC 2), and operational excellence across AWS infrastructure while enabling the company to scale securely.

What you'll do

  • Establish and maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance, implementing security controls and documentation
  • Design observability systems including logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing
  • Build CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for automated, safe deployments
  • Manage AWS infrastructure including networking, security, IAM, and compliance configurations
  • Optimize system performance, latency, and cost efficiency at scale
  • Serve as founding member of Infrastructure & Security team

What they're looking for

  • AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM)
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
  • Security best practices and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
  • Observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
  • Scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go)
  • Networking and encryption principles
  • Secrets management and key rotation
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Basic Capital

Basic Capital is a fintech startup building AI-powered retirement solutions across mobile, web, and API platforms. The company is hiring full-stack engineers, frontend developers, infrastructure specialists, and go-to-market engineers to develop its product, scale its cloud infrastructure, and drive revenue growth.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through your experience implementing SOC 2 Type II compliance or similar security frameworks. What were the biggest challenges and how did you overcome them?
  • Describe a time you designed an observability system from scratch. What tools did you choose, how did you structure logging/monitoring/alerting, and why?
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