SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.
We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin.We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list every year since 2023.
Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity.SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.
About the Role
Are you passionate about creating world-class solutions that fuel product stability and continuously improve infrastructure operations? We’re looking for a driven Infrastructure Engineer to architect, implement, and maintain powerful observability systems that safeguard the performance and reliability of our most critical systems. In this role, you’ll take real ownership—collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape best-in-class observability standards, troubleshoot complex issues, and fine-tune monitoring tools to exceed SLA requirements.
If you’re ready to design high-quality solutions, influence our technology roadmap, and make a lasting impact on our product’s success, we want to meet you!
Responsibilities:
- Improve alerting across SentiLink systems and services, developing high quality monitoring capabilities while actively reducing false positives.
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve infrastructure issues as they arise; participate in on-call rotations for production issues.
- Define and refine Service Level Indicators (SLI), Service Level Objectives (SLO), and Service Level Agreements (SLA) in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
- Develop monitoring and alerting configurations using IaC solutions such as Terraform.
- Build and maintain dashboards to provide visibility into system performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve root cause analysis processes and reduce Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Drive cost optimization for observability tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, and Sumo Logic.
- Perform capacity testing to determine a deep understanding of infrastructure performance under load. Develop alerting based on learnings.
- Oversee, develop, and operate Kubernetes and service mesh infrastructure, ensuring smooth performance and reliability
- Investigate operational alerts, identify root causes, and compile comprehensive root cause analysis reports. Pursue action items relentlessly until they are thoroughly completed
- Conduct in-depth examinations of database operational issues, actively developing and improving database architecture, schema, and configuration for enhanced performance and reliability
- Develop and maintain incident response runbooks and improve processes to minimize service downtime.
- Research and evaluate new observability tools and technologies to enhance system monitoring.
Requirements
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- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering.
- Expertise in AWS and infrastructure-as-code development.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
- Experience managing observability platforms, building monitoring dashboards, and configuring high quality, actionable alerting
- Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking.
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Docker.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience operating enterprise-size databases. Postgres, Aurora, Redshift, and OpenSearch experience is a plus
- Experience with Python or Golang is a plus
Perks:
- Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)
- Flexible paid time off
- Regular company-wide in-person events
- Home office stipend, and more!
Corporate Values:
- Follow Through
- Deep Understanding
- Whatever It Takes
- Do Something Smart
