Software Engineer - Infrastructure & DevOps

About this role

Join Basic Capital's founding Infrastructure & Security team to build and maintain the cloud platform powering a fintech retirement solution. You'll drive platform reliability, security compliance (SOC 2), and operational excellence across AWS infrastructure while enabling the company to scale securely.

What you'll do

• Establish and maintain SOC 2 Type II compliance, implementing security controls and documentation
• Design observability systems including logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing
• Build CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for automated, safe deployments
• Manage AWS infrastructure including networking, security, IAM, and compliance configurations
• Optimize system performance, latency, and cost efficiency at scale
• Serve as founding member of Infrastructure & Security team

What they're looking for

• AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM)
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
• Security best practices and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
• Observability platforms (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
• Scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go)
• Networking and encryption principles
• Secrets management and key rotation