Highnote · 5 months ago
Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $240K/yr
12+ years expHighnote is an innovative card issuer processor and program management platform founded by leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club. The Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer will play a crucial role in managing cloud infrastructure and ensuring the security, stability, and performance of services while collaborating with various teams to build an effective infrastructure platform.
Credit CardsFinTechInformation TechnologyPaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Collaborate with other teams to build an infrastructure as a platform that is secure, stable, cost-effective, and most importantly, empowers teams to iterate fast
Building and maintaining our cloud infrastructure stack and CI/CD pipelines
Design and implement monitoring and alerting for the infrastructure
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or software engineering
Strong experience working with GCP or AWS
Experience with Kubernetes and/or Istio
Experience with one or more scripting/programming languages, preferably Java/Python
Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced and cross-functional environment
Strong skills in troubleshooting issues in a highly distributed environment
Preferred
Experience in the financial payments technology space
Expertise in Cloud networking
Experience with GCP technologies, such as Spanner, BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, etc
Experience in building large-scale, distributed systems
Benefits
Flexible Paid Time Off
100% healthcare coverage + 75% coverage for dependents
401k program
Paid Parental Leave: Up to 16 weeks paid leave for the birth parent, and up to 6 weeks paid leave for the non-birth parent
Equity in Highnote
Stipend to build out your home office; internet and phone reimbursement
Company
Highnote
Highnote is an embedded finance company that develops a virtual payment platform to handle payment processing business flows.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Highnote has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (16)
2024 (6)
2023 (6)
2022 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$213.07MKey Investors
Oak HC/FT
2025-01-21Series B· $109M
2022-06-18Convertible Note· $25M
2021-12-01Convertible Note· $25M
Leadership Team
John MacIlwaine
Chief Executive Officer
Kin Kee
Co-Founder and CTO
Recent News
2025-12-24
FX News Group
2025-12-17
Crowdfund Insider
2025-12-17
Company data provided by crunchbase