About Bastion

Bastion enables financial institutions and enterprises to issue regulated stablecoins, generate revenue on reserves, and expand their ecosystems. Bastion’s platform combines stablecoin issuance, secure custody, and seamless orchestration for cross-border transfers, on/off-ramps, and stablecoin conversions. With Bastion’s platform and APIs, businesses can create and scale their stablecoin network, while optimizing revenue, compliance, and control.

You can check out our Guide for Candidates here to learn more about our work.

Work to Be Done

Instead of a list of requirements, we want to give you a directional look into the first 30, 90, and 180 days on the job.

We are a startup, so the pace is fast and the specific work will change. You need to be okay with that.

If you think this is something you can handle, we will be excited to speak with you.

We are open to US remote and have an office in New York City.

First 30 days: Learn the infrastructure, ship confidently

• Ramp on AWS architecture, Terraform patterns, Kubernetes setup, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack

  Ship a small infrastructure improvement: Terraform module refactor, monitoring enhancement, or CI/CD optimization

  Add runbooks, alerts, or documentation for the infrastructure areas you touch

  Outcomes

  Multiple safe infrastructure changes deployed with verification

  You understand our core infrastructure patterns and can navigate Terraform, K8s, and AWS resources

  Updated documentation and/or infrastructure-as-code improvements that help the team

By 90 days: Own an infrastructure domain and raise the bar

• Take ownership of an infrastructure area: CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, Kubernetes platform, or AWS security/networking

  Lead a medium-scope project: implementing a reusable Terraform module, right-sizing service resources, or improving deployment reliability

  Strengthen system reliability with better metrics, alerts, autoscaling policies, and failure recovery mechanisms

  Outcomes

  A delivered infrastructure improvement that enhances reliability, reduces cost, or improves developer velocity

  You're a go-to person for your infrastructure domain

By 180 days: Drive platform-wide impact

• Lead a platform-wide initiative: single immutable image pipeline, infrastructure standardization, database performance optimization, or security hardening

  Shape infrastructure direction with design docs, RFC proposals, and mentoring engineering teams

  Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to make pragmatic tradeoffs on reliability, cost, and regulatory requirements

  Outcomes

  A multi-sprint infrastructure delivery that improves system-wide reliability, security, or developer experience

  Clear before/after improvements in deployment speed, cost efficiency, or operational stability

  Patterns and tooling that enable engineers to ship faster and safer

Some problems you might work on

• Building reusable Terraform modules that standardize service deployment patterns across dev, sandbox, and prod

  Implementing single immutable image pipelines with built-in security scanning and promotion workflows

  Right-sizing Kubernetes workloads and autoscaling policies to reduce cost while maintaining reliability

  Designing and implementing database monitoring and performance optimization strategies

  Hardening AWS infrastructure with security best practices: IAM policies, network segmentation, secrets management, and audit logging

  Building observability infrastructure that gives engineers fast feedback on system health and performance

  Improving CI/CD reliability and speed through better caching, parallelization, and failure handling

Our typical stack

• Languages: Go and TypeScript/Node.js; some services in Rust as needed

  Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform

  Cloud & Compute: AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, EC2), Kubernetes, Docker

  CI/CD: GitHub Actions, container registries, automated testing and deployment pipelines

  Data: Postgres (RDS), Redis, Kafka, Snowflake

  Workflow Management: Temporal

  Security: AWS Nitro Enclaves for hardware-backed key isolation, IAM policies, secrets management

  Observability: Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, CloudWatch

  Incident Management: Incident.io

  Bastion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, and placement. Bastion participates in E-Verify to authorize eligibility of employment in the United States.