Courtyard.io · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Security and Reliability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $230K/yr
8+ years expCourtyard.io is one of the fastest-growing collectibles startups, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the security, reliability, and observability of their platform. The role involves building monitoring systems, conducting security audits, and ensuring the infrastructure can handle significant growth while maintaining operational efficiency.
BlockchainFinTechMarketplaceNon-Fungible Token (NFT)
Hiring Manager
John Moersdorf
Responsibilities
Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring across our microservices architecture
Instrument our Go services with meaningful metrics
Create dashboards that tell the story of system health
Ensure every engineer can debug any issue in production with the data we collect
Design alerting strategies that wake people up for real problems, not noise
Every engineer is already in an oncall rotation - your job is to make their lives easier by building better alerts, better runbooks, and better automation
Reduce the toil so oncall is manageable and incidents are handled smoothly by whoever is on duty
Conduct regular security reviews of our codebase, infrastructure, and third-party integrations
Identify vulnerabilities before they become incidents
Work with the team to implement mitigations
Establish security best practices and ensure they're followed
Build the systems and processes that enable effective incident response across the team
Create runbooks, automate common remediation tasks, and establish postmortem practices that turn incidents into learning opportunities
Make it easy for any engineer to handle incidents confidently
Identify and eliminate single points of failure
Implement circuit breakers, retries, and graceful degradation
Build automation that reduces manual operational work
Ensure our systems can handle 100x growth without proportionally increasing operational burden
Secure our GCP infrastructure, manage secrets properly, implement least-privilege access controls, and ensure our Terraform configurations follow security best practices
Own the security of our CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience building, securing, and operating complex distributed systems at scale
Experience with Go microservices running on Google Cloud Run
Experience with PostgreSQL
Experience with Redis
Experience with Google Cloud Platform infrastructure (Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage)
Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code
Experience with blockchain indexing and transaction submission
Experience with external service integrations
Deep expertise in building comprehensive observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards)
Deep expertise in designing and implementing effective alerting strategies that minimize noise while catching real issues
Deep expertise in creating automation and tooling that reduces operational toil
Deep expertise in establishing incident response processes, runbooks, and postmortem practices
Deep expertise in conducting security audits and threat modeling for distributed systems
Deep expertise in implementing security controls, authentication/authorization systems, and secrets management
Deep expertise in performance optimization and capacity planning for high-throughput systems
Deep expertise in database reliability, backup/recovery strategies, and data integrity
Deep expertise in API security, rate limiting, and DDoS mitigation
Deep expertise in compliance and audit logging for financial systems
Benefits
Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage
Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development
Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment
Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being
401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future
Company
Courtyard.io
Courtyard.io is one of the fastest-growing collectibles startups.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$41.62MKey Investors
ForerunnerNew Enterprise AssociatesY Combinator
2025-07-24Series A· $30M
2024-12-23Series Unknown· $4.5M
2022-11-02Seed· $7M
Leadership Team
Nicolas le Jeune
Co-Founder & CEO
Paulin Andurand
Co-Founder and CTO
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