About the job
- Role: Lead Software Engineer - DevOps and Infrastructure
- On-site role at our New York City headquarters, 5 days a week
- Annual base salary: $175,000 - $250,000
- Equity: Competitive initial equity package along with refreshers
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required
About Stratos Labs
Stratos Labs is revolutionizing commodity risk management for the $10 trillion physical economy. Our innovative platform merges real-time market data with AI-driven exposure modeling and automated trade generation, empowering operators with precise tools to manage volatility. From instantaneous trade execution to ongoing monitoring, alerts, and actionable recommendations, Stratos Labs transforms complex market risks into a seamless, always-on hedging solution.
Founded in 2023 by a former macro market-maker from Barclays and a trading systems engineer from Coinbase, we have successfully raised over $20 million in funding from esteemed investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Crucible Capital, Neo, and DST Global.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and Optimize AWS Cloud: Take complete ownership of our AWS environment, architecting, scaling, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure to enable new services while ensuring it is cost-effective and integrated with our core trading systems.
- Infrastructure Architecture: Lead the transition to a full Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model by developing a sophisticated Terraform stack that eliminates manual configurations.
- Security and Compliance: Act as the gatekeeper for our environments, managing container security, CVE remediation, and ensuring compliance with SOC2 standards without hindering team productivity.
- Observability Strategy: Design a comprehensive monitoring strategy to proactively identify bottlenecks before they lead to outages.
- CI/CD Pipeline Refinement: Enhance our GitHub Actions and CI/CD workflows to streamline the process of deploying Go, C++, and TypeScript services from commit to production.
- Reliability and Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations, conducting thorough post-mortems to ensure that recurring issues are resolved effectively.

