Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Experiments
Xendit provides payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia, with a focus on Indonesia and the Philippines. We process payments, power marketplaces, disburse payroll and loans, provide KYC solutions, prevent fraud, and help businesses grow exponentially. We serve our customers by providing a suite of world-class APIs, eCommerce platform integrations, and easy to use applications for individual entrepreneurs, SMEs, and enterprises alike.
Our main focus is building the most advanced payment rails for Southeast Asia, with a clear goal in mind — to make payments across in SEA simple, secure and easy for everyone. We serve thousands of businesses ranging from SMEs to multinational enterprises, and process millions of transactions monthly. We’ve been growing rapidly since our inception in 2015, onboarding hundreds of new customers every month, and backed by global top-10 VCs. We’re proud to be featured on among the fastest growing companies by Y-Combinator.
Mission
Our vision is to build digital infrastructure for Southeast Asia, supporting customers from fast-growing startups, NGOs to multinational enterprises such as Traveloka, Lazada, Garuda Indonesia, Suzuki, and Ciputra.
Your mission as part of Xendit IT Infrastructure team is to build state of the art IT infrastructure and develop tooling and automation to make our developers happier and our system more reliable.
Outcomes
- Design, plan, and implement infrastructure and networking solutions in the cloud and on-premise using modern infrastructure services such as Kubernetes, Docker, and serverless computing
- Collaborate with the architects group to drive long term infrastructure improvements across Xendit to achieve north star for availability, capacity, scalability, security and maintainability
- Participate and influence the design, plan, and implementation of other teams’ projects and initiatives related with infrastructure system architecture
- Drive the adoption of tooling and automation to make our developers more productive and happier
- Collaborate with industry counterparts to proactively anticipate short and long term infrastructure needs
- Collaborate with data engineering team to build scalable and secure big data infrastructure
- Keep our IT infrastructure secure and comply with international security standards such as PCI-DSS and ISO 27001, and license from Bank Indonesia or OJK such as Payment Gateway Operator, Electronic Money, and Money Remitter
- Acting as a mentor by defining, demonstrating and communicating best practice to other team members
- Do whatever it takes to make Xendit succeed
You may be a good fit if
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be taken into consideration in lieu of a degree
- 7 - 10 years of relevant IT experience, with a minimum of 5-year experience focusing on cloud infrastructure
- Expert knowledge/experience in building and maintaining cloud infrastructures and such as AWS, GCP, Azure or AlibabaCloud
- Hands-on technical experience in building, scaling and maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure in a production environment with at least 30 nodes while ensuring high availability across separate availability zones.
- Hands-on technical experience in building, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, TeamCity, or Buddy.Works used by at least 300 engineers
- Hands-on technical experience on configuring and fine-tuning monitoring and logging tools such as ELK, Datadog, NewRelic, or Splunk
- Hands-on technical experience configuring and fine-tuning Kubernetes service mesh such as via Linkerd or Istio, etc.
- Hands-on technical experience configuring and maintaining ingress/egress via Traefik, Calico, ALB, etc.
- Hands-on technical experience configuring and maintaining VPC, CIDR, ACL, Transit Gateway, etc. \
- Strong track record of mentoring engineers and driving cross-team initiatives
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English
- Bonus point if you have experience working in high growth startup or highly regulated company that requires compliance from PCI DSS or HIPAA
What we care about
- Solve for the customer first: You build what customers want. You think about what is right for customers, not what is easiest for you
- Demonstrate mastery of honey badgery: You make ambitious goals. Then execute…no matter what stands in the way. When knocked down, you get up
- Take on challenges willingly and can be trusted to execute: You can be trusted to get things done right the first time quickly. You hit your deadlines
- You’re like us: You smile a lot, think work is fun and don’t take yourself too seriously. You measure yourself against the best and believe feedback is the breakfast of champions. You follow the golden rule
- You’re remarkable: People naturally talk about how awesome you are. If we can’t find someone who raves about you then it’s unlikely we will too
About Xendit
- Growing 25% month on month: We are one of the fastest-growing companies in Southeast Asia and have done so for the last two years.
- We process close to 1b USD annually in payments by providing simple APIs for payments on a modern tech stack
- YCombinator Batch S15: YC is the best incubator in the world, producing Airbnb and Dropbox; 120 companies out of 6,000 applications get in
- Funded by investors behind Facebook, Slack, Kaokao, Path, Twitch, Grab, Tokopedia
