Director of Cloud Engineering
About the Role
We’re working to change the way wealth is created.
Yieldstreet is growing very fast and looking for an engineering leader that will be our champion in this mission. This is a crucial role in Yieldstreet’s infrastructure engineering organization. Together with a super-talented, motivated and distributed complex of product, test, site reliability, and security engineers, you will take a hands-on role to build our large and growing, modern and highly distributed platform. You will also manage brilliant engineers, hire and expand our engineering team, and play a big part in defining our engineering process and culture.
We're looking for a candidate who can be based out of NYC, Boston, or Miami
About Yieldstreet
Yieldstreet is building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. Yieldstreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Fine Art, Real Estate, Crypto, Legal & Private Business Credit. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Miami, Boston, Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.
Why Yieldstreet?
Join a team of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages who are on a mission to make alternative investments more accessible. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B. We get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites!
What’s in it for you:
Competitive compensation packages including equity
Health, dental & vision coverage with FSA/HSA options
Unlimited PTO
401k Match
Learning and Development stipend
Wellness credit
Paid lunch once a week
Commuter benefit
Life insurance
Sabbatical
What You'll Do:
- Develop, mentor, and empower our infrastructure engineers and managers globally
- Assist in the development of our site reliability engineering practice
- Work with product, security, data, and test engineering to flesh out the future of Yieldstreet’s infrastructure
- Improve the way we build our platform - contribute to engineering-wide process improvements across Yieldstreet
- Help us maintain the rapid growth pace for our team by participating in the hiring process, interviewing, and being an advocate for Yieldstreet
- Do some hands-on work on our platform
What You'll Need:
- Experience managing software engineers and engineering managers
- Strong desire to help people grow - your proudest career accomplishments are helping others
- 5+ years of overall experience, mostly in Linux systems and cloud engineering
- Strong foundation in systems performance, architecture, and security
- Experience in deploying and improving CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working in a team environment, collaborating with product, test, and security engineering to deliver consumer-facing products in a regulated environment
Bonus points for:
- Experience with event-sourced microservice development
- Experience working with messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ), and streaming data (Apache Spark, AWS Kinesis)
- Experience with ElasticSearch and Graph Databases
- Experience in a Kubernetes native environment
- Previous entrepreneurial venture or start-up experience