ARQ is one of the fastest-growing fintechs in the world. Our mission is to redefine how people interact with money across borders, building the infrastructure to move value seamlessly. We’re still early in our journey, which means every person who joins shapes the future of our product, culture, and growth. If you’re excited by big challenges, global impact, and the chance to grow fast with a world-class team, ARQ is the place to do it.
What we're looking forAs a Senior DevOps Engineer on our Platform team, you'll architect, deploy, and scale cloud infrastructure that powers our global fintech platform. We're looking for an engineer who thinks like a software developer and operates like a systems architect - someone who builds infrastructure as a product, not just as configuration. You'll work with multi-region clusters, and GitOps workflows to support microservices across retail banking, business banking, and wealth management domains. We've built a platform engineering culture focused on developer experience, type-safe infrastructure, and intelligent automation. If you're passionate about developer productivity, infrastructure as code done right, and building robust distributed systems at scale, we'd love to talk to you.
What you'll be doingDesign and implement AWS infrastructure following IaC best practices
Build reusable libraries that enforce best practices and accelerate development
Manage multi Amazon clusters across US, EU, and Mexico
Deploy and manage many services RDS, Kafka, and Redshift among others
Build and maintain CI pipelines
Create reusable pipeline templates for micro services architecture, and containerized applications
Implement GitOps workflows for declarative application deployments
Build monitoring and alerting with different set of tools including Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana
5+ years of DevOps/Platform Engineering with deep AWS expertise
Strong software development background - you write code, not just config
Production Kubernetes experience - Cluster management, container orchestration
Infrastructure as Code
CI/CD - pipeline design, templates, runners, caching strategies
AWS services: EKS, RDS, MSK, S3 among others
Container expertise - Docker, multi-stage builds, image optimization
Monorepo experience with pnpm, Turbo, or similar tools
Data engineering infrastructure
GitOps workflows experience
Fintech or regulated industry experience
Multi-region architecture / disaster recovery
TypeScript expertise
Systems thinking - understanding how distributed systems work end-to-end
Problem-solving - methodical debugging of complex infrastructure issues
Collaboration - working with engineering teams to understand their needs
Documentation - clear runbooks, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing
Pragmatism - balancing technical excellence with practical delivery
Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Sign-on stock options bonus
Discretionary performance bonus (stock options)
Paid annual leave
Own the platform that directly impacts customer experience
Work with modern DevOps practices and cutting-edge technology
Strong team focused on continuous learning and knowledge sharing
Influence technical direction and architecture decisions
