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Software Engineer - Infrastructure & DevOps

Basic Capital · New York Office · On-site

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About Basic Capital

Join us on a mission to increase the rate at which Americans save for retirement. Backed by Lux.

About the role

Be a founding member of the Infrastructure & Security team, responsible for the platform reliability, security posture, and compliance readiness that enables Basic Capital to scale with confidence Own Basic Capital's ongoing SOC 2 Type II compliance, implementing security controls, documenting processes, and working with auditors to achieve and maintain certification

What they're looking for

  • Strong experience with cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM)
  • Proven track record implementing security best practices and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar)
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
  • Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
  • Strong understanding of networking, security principles, and encryption
  • Experience with observability platforms and building monitoring/alerting systems (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch)
More about this role

Basic Capital is a fintech company disrupting America’s $1T retirement industry by building the mortgage for retirement, unlocking market ownership, and making wealth accessible to every American. Our mission is to create products, platforms, and a credit marketplace that power a fundamentally new retirement system.

Our founding team includes leaders from Goldman Sachs, Uber, Block, Stripe, and Robinhood. We’re backed by top investors such as Lux Capital, Forerunner Ventures, BoxGroup, SVAngel, Inspired Capital, and Henry Kravis. Based in SoHo, NYC, we’re assembling a lean, high-performance team committed to reducing wealth inequality.

For more information, visit Basic Capital’s website .

Be a founding member of the Infrastructure & Security team, responsible for the platform reliability, security posture, and compliance readiness that enables Basic Capital to scale with confidence

Own Basic Capital's ongoing SOC 2 Type II compliance, implementing security controls, documenting processes, and working with auditors to achieve and maintain certification

Design and implement comprehensive observability systems including logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing across...

Read the full posting on Basic Capital's site ↗

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