Software Engineer (Founding DevOps)
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Overview
Job Description
Highbeam is building the future of business banking and cash management.
Our platform combines AI agents, automated financial workflows, and integrated financial products that save brands time and money.
Customers have generated billions in sales and include well-known brands such as Cuts, Tushy, NYON, Sabah, Still Here, Alice Mushrooms, Original Grain, birddogs, and more.
Our team includes alumni of Shopify, Square, Toast, Rippling, and McKinsey.
We’ve raised $42M in equity from Acrew, FirstMark, Mayfield, and Two Sigma Ventures.
About this role
We’re looking for a DevOps & Platform Engineer to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling. You’ll be the force behind our platform’s scalability, reliability, and security—ensuring our engineering team can ship quickly and safely.
This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, developer experience, and backend systems. You’ll work closely with our backend, security, and product teams, and occasionally contribute directly to feature development.
Our stack: Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Kotlin, TypeScript / React, Python. Check out our open-source Kotlin toolkit Kairo.
What you’ll do
Own and improve our GCP infrastructure (Pub/Sub, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Run, BigQuery, IAM)
Improve platform security, observability and reliability
Tackle tricky backend optimization and Postgres performance questions
Own and improve our CI/CD pipelines (faster builds, parallelized tests, incremental compilation)
Improve IntelliJ/Detekt setup and build a common dotfiles repo
Create and maintain our devtooling Dockerfiles
When capacity allows, contribute to the product backlog
Who you are
4+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or backend infrastructure roles
Deep experience with GCP, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
Strong knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, tracing, monitoring best practices)
Hands-on experience improving security in cloud platforms
Comfortable writing backend code
Familiar with Postgres tuning and optimization
You'll thrive at Highbeam if...
You love working in-person with a high-performing team
You enjoy working in an idea-meritocratic, low-ego environment
You are proactive and self-directed, and you excel in ambiguous, fast moving environments
You care about delivering a polished customer experience
Bonus: You have experience working in fintech, AI or early-stage startups
What we offer
Chance to join the founding team of a well-funded startup chasing a huge opportunity
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Great location: Our NYC office is in NoHo, a short walk from the A,C,E · B,D,F,M · N,Q,R,W · 1 · 6 trains. Our Toronto office is downtown near Osgoode Station.
Generous PTO
Comprehensive health & benefits package
Stipends for lunch, commute, wellness, and purchasing customer products
Yearly offsite—most recently we went to Mexico City!
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