Staff Production Engineer

Lightspark is building the open payment protocol for the Internet making money move like data: instantly, globally, and without friction. With enterprise tools like Grid, Node, and Spark, businesses can send and receive money instantly, securely, and at a fraction of the cost, anytime, anywhere. Lightspark is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, but serves the world.

We are looking for engineers who thrive in entrepreneurial environments, enjoy writing and shipping code fast, and can help us build out a great culture of engineering excellence. As a Senior Production Engineer, you’ll build and integrate new experiences for Lightspark’s customers, and optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of Lightspark infrastructure. We’re looking for people who are passionate about building world-changing software and solving complex problems to further our mission, as well as having fun along the way.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Designing, building, scaling, securing and maintaining production services

• Writing or improving code frameworks (e.g. monitoring, logging, database access, authentication)

• Desire to learn and grow in a highly collaborative environment

• Building and optimizing core infrastructure to support new features and functionality

• Joining the oncall rotation, supporting the Software Engineers, and debugging the hardest problems

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• 10+ years of Production / Site Reliability / DevOps Engineering

• Experience writing high quality and well tested code

• Experience communicating and collaborating across technical and other cross functional teams

• CS degree, or equivalent is ideal but not required. We appreciate and acknowledge that some of the best talent comes from non-traditional backgrounds.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions (i.e. AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)

• Experience programming in high-level languages such as Python is preferred

Lightspark is on a mission to build an open payment protocol for the Internet at scale and therefore we’re committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve. We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.