Payments Infrastructure Engineer

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Payments Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Palo Alto, CA or New York, NY or Seattle, WA (onsite)
Base Salary Range: $127,000 to $297,000

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What You'll Do:

As a Payments Infrastructure Engineer at X, you will share the responsibility for the design, development, and maintenance of the Payments live serving infrastructure and database systems. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design, implementation and operation of fully-automated fault-tolerant infrastructure systems using modern container native solutions.
• Providing support to other Payments engineering teams in the form of infrastructure feature requests, live system debugging and on-call support.
• Performing scheduled maintenance and cross-region fail-over operations for production systems.
• Maintaining security and reliability standards at all levels of the Payments infrastructure and application platform.
• Working with 3rd party auditors, consultants and vendors to ensure all technical compliance requirements and industry security best practices are in place at each level of the infrastructure systems.

Who You Are:

We're looking for exceptional engineers who are passionate about our mission and have a strong desire to build the most secure and reliable systems possible. The ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years software engineering experience with Golang / Rust / Shell
• Experience building cloud infrastructure with Terraform in GCP or AWS (CodeBuild, EC2, ECR, EKS, Lambda, RDS and VPC)
• Experience with RDBMS storage systems and large scale data solutions (MySQL, Presto, S3, Athena, BigQuery)
• Security first mindset

If you're an exceptional engineer who shares our passion for reliability and security, we'd love to hear from you.