Agora Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

ABOUT AGORA

At Agora our mission is to transform how money moves. We believe stablecoins will underpin a new financial fabric one that is faster more global and more efficient than todays siloed systems. That is why we are building AUSD and the Agora stack a full service platform that makes issuing managing and integrating stablecoins seamless whether youre a developer fintech or institution. With AUSD stablecoins become programmable composable and ubiquitous by default.

We believe digital dollars should be a public good: trusted accessible and built for real-world utility. Our mission is to drive adoption through customizable user-friendly on-ramps that make stable dollar-based value available onchain.

Were backed by world-class investors including Paradigm and Dragonfly and were growing a team to reimagine how value moves online.

Were intentional about who we bring on. If youre passionate about stablecoins and want to help create more open intuitive ways for people to engage with money lets talk.

ABOUT THE TEAM

We bring the discipline of high-performance finance teams and the creativity of a fast-moving crypto-native startup. Were a small mission-driven group of builders who move fast sweat the details and hold a high bar for excellence in product code and culture.

Youll be joining a tight-knit team that values clear thinking extreme ownership and high-velocity decision making. We operate in short feedback loops support one another without ego and are deeply motivated by the opportunity to build foundational infrastructure for the future of money.

Before applying please review our Agora Engineering Culture and Ways of Working document. It reflects how we think operate and hold ourselves accountable and its the best way to assess whether this environment is the right fit for you.

JOB SUMMARY

Were looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and build Agoras internal platform that empowers product teams to ship software with confidence reliability and speed. This role brings a Software Engineering mindset to infrastructure: building reusable abstractions internal services developer tooling and infrastructure primitives that reduce cognitive load for application teams and the Infrastructure team itself.

You will own core platform components such as our TypeScript Pulumi codebase Kubernetes-based runtime environments and monitoring stack. The work centers on architecting scalable systems enforcing engineering standards through code and continuously improving developer experience through well-engineered platform capabilities.

We value real-time collaboration and prefer candidates located close to Eastern Time while welcoming exceptional engineers across Pacific Time through ET2. Regardless of where you are located your working hours will need to have a majority overlap with ET business hours.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of professional Software Engineering experience including substantial work in Infrastructure and Cloud domains

• Strong programming skills in TypeScript or another strictly typed language

• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (availability consistency observability fault tolerance)

• Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code systems

• Deep understanding of AWS architecture

• Experience designing operating and scaling Kubernetes workloads

• Proven ability to build reusable systems and abstractions rather than one-off scripts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs error budgets and building incident tooling

• Experience improving Observability practices defining alerts operational dashboards and business metrics

• Familiarity with GitOps patterns and deployment automation technologies

• Expertise in DevEx or Developer Productivity

• Experience building Internal Development Platforms with focus on self-service and golden paths

• Experience in maintenance and operations of production-grade systems and on-call rotations

Agora operates a centralized USD-pegged stablecoin platform with robust compliance security and governance. We are equally committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and equitable workplace.

Interview Process

• Silver screening Interview

• Silver Technical Interview (System Design Interview)

• Client Screening Interview

• Client Live coding Interview

• Client Technical interview

• Client Behavioral Interview

Required Experience:

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