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Infrastructure Engineer

Kastle · San Francisco · On-site

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About Kastle

One platform that keeps originations, fulfillment, and servicing moving 24/7, built for regulated work and connected to the systems you already use. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Design and operate distributed systems that power AI agents in production, with an emphasis on consistency, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability Architect service-to-service communication, coordination, and state management for systems spanning multiple regions and availability zones Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • At Kastle our Infrastructure team is responsible for building the underlying systems that help thousands of people daily, make their largest and most important financial transactions
  • 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering roles, with substantial hands-on distributed systems experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consensus, replication, partitioning, consistency models (CAP/PACELC), and failure modes
  • Production experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) at scale
  • Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, including cluster upgrades, networking, and security policy
  • Experience designing or operating distributed data stores, message queues, or event streaming systems (e.g. Kafka, etcd, Cassandra, CockroachDB)
More about this role

Kastle is building the AI employee for financial services. We work with some of America's largest banks, helping them scale their operations using autonomous AI Agents that process payments, originate loans, and help customers get a world class experience during some of the biggest financial decisions of their lives.

We've processed over $2 billion in transactions and are backed by Insight Partners and Y Combinator. If you are interested in building AI that is applied in the real world where precision, reliability, and performance matter and redefine access to credit across the world, apply below.

We just raised a $24M Series A and are growing fast!

At Kastle our Infrastructure team is responsible for building the underlying systems that help thousands of people daily, make their largest and most important financial transactions.

We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with deep distributed systems expertise to design, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers Kastle's AI agents in production at banks, lender and other financial institutions. You'll work on the hard problems of distributed systems — consistency, fault tolerance, horizontal scalability, and...

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