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Infrastructure Engineer

River Financial

River Financial

Other Engineering
United States · Remote
USD 150k-220k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 10, 2025

At River we are building the most trusted financial institution in the world, powered by bitcoin. We believe in a future where every person will have bitcoin savings, and every business will have bitcoin on the balance sheet. We obsessively design and build delightful products that help our clients buy, sell, secure, and use Bitcoin.

We are seeking a security-minded infrastructure engineer to lead key efforts to help secure, simplify, and scale our systems. River primarily uses Google Cloud but has a number of on-premises systems.

River is headquartered in Columbus, OH, and has raised more than $50 million from leading investors, including; Goldcrest, Kingsway, Polychain, M13, DG, and Valor.

What you will be doing

  • Building the systems that power the deployment, monitoring, and scaling of our software services

  • Leading projects to improve security, availability, reliability and scalability across our infrastructure

  • Creating and executing on disaster recovery plans

  • Participating in on-call rotations

  • Shaping the culture of the infrastructure organization for years to come

What we look for in you

  • You have at least 3 years experience in a DevOps, Infra and/or SRE role

  • You have a deep understanding of computer and network security

  • You have experience running Kubernetes in production

  • You have hands-on coding ability

  • You are highly proficient with Google Cloud Platform services like GKE, CloudSQL, LoadBalancing, CloudArmor, Networking, BigQuery, Compute and Security services

  • You have strong network perimeter defense and analysis skills

  • You are familiar with supporting engineering teams in a collaborative and productive way

  • You take ownership of the systems you build

  • You have experience developing solutions to ambiguous problems

  • You're excited about what we are building at River

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen

Nice to haves

  • You have worked on financial services infrastructure

  • You have worked at a fast growing startup

  • Interest in Bitcoin

Location & Salary

  • 100% remote option available within the United States. with offices in SF, NYC, and Columbus

  • Salary range between $150,000 - $220,000 based on skills and experience

  • Significant equity stock options

  • Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Parental Leave separate from regular PTO policy

  • 401k