Job Description

Cash App is a mobile-first bank that ranks in the top 10 free apps in the app store with a rapidly growing user base and feature set. Our mission is to provide banking services to all, in particular those that are underserved.  Cash is built as a service mesh, communicating via synchronous APIs as well as asynchronous events, built on AWS and Kubernetes. Tax is a recently launched product running on Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes, and the Tax Cloud Platform team is responsible for the mission-critical fabric that these services run on, and provides devops, service discovery, routing, self-healing, observability, and developer efficiency features that product teams use to operate their systems on Cash’s platform.

As a member of Cash App’s Tax Cloud Platform engineering team, you’ll collaborate with our stakeholders, including product engineers, to:

• Design, build, and own infrastructure projects that provide critical support for operating services at scale

• Dig into the many parts of a large platform using a wide variety of analytical tooling, and if necessary, add some new ones

• Use a data-driven approach to make the call on any new infrastructure that might need to be added, whether it’s off-the-shelf or built in-house

• Knock down pieces of infrastructure and improve on it to demonstrate resilience

• Work with bleeding edge cloud technology

Qualifications

You have:

• Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability

• Strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer, and mentor other engineers

• Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership

• Self-possessed drive to challenge, automate and document

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Technologies we use and teach:

• Java, Kotlin, Go, Groovy

• Gradle, Maven, Make, Jenkins

• GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

• Firewalls, Routing, SSL, DNS, Mesh, Proxies

• gRPC, Envoy / Istio

• SignalFx, DataDog, Jaeger, Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana