Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure & Systems Engineering, Salt Lake City

Taxbit is a rapidly growing fintech built by CPAs, tax attorneys, and engineers to solve compliance and tax reporting for the digital economy. The company's AI-powered platform serves leading cryptocurrency exchanges, payment networks, accounting firms, and government agencies across offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Salt Lake City, London, Madrid, and Singapore. As a Staff Software Engineer in Systems, Security & Compliance, you will own the cloud infrastructure that powers Taxbit's platform and lead the technical vision for how the company builds, deploys, secures, and operates systems at scale.

About Taxbit

Taxbit has emerged as a key infrastructure player in fintech and digital assets by combining deep regulatory expertise with modern technology. The company addresses a critical gap: automating tax and compliance reporting for transactions involving digital assets, payments, and other financial flows. With backing from top-tier Silicon Valley investors and a team distributed across multiple continents, Taxbit operates at the intersection of regulatory compliance and technological innovation, where both matter equally.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate secure, highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, including infrastructure-as-code using AWS CDK or Terraform to ensure consistency across all environments
• Own the design and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and GitHub Actions to enable frequent, reliable deployments
• Define and implement backup strategy, disaster recovery procedures, and data architecture patterns across cloud systems to support scalability and resilience
• Establish centralized logging, monitoring, and observability across services and infrastructure to drive operational visibility
• Implement security guardrails integrated throughout the development lifecycle and collaborate with security and compliance teams to raise reliability standards
• Build workflow automation that reduces manual toil in infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks
• Debug and resolve complex issues across distributed, cloud-native systems, conducting root-cause analysis to drive durable fixes
• Implement AI Ops practices to deploy, monitor, and operate AI-enabled systems and pipelines responsibly in production

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with significant hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure and systems engineering
• Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript, or equivalent language
• Proven experience with CI/CD, GitHub, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools, particularly AWS CDK or Terraform
• Demonstrated expertise designing and implementing backup strategy, data architecture, and disaster recovery for cloud systems
• Experience implementing logging and monitoring solutions and maintaining observability across distributed systems
• Security-minded approach with practical experience implementing and maintaining security guardrails in engineering workflows
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and experience with workflow automation
• Familiarity with AI governance practices and frameworks for managing AI systems responsibly, plus understanding of AI security risks and mitigations

Nice to have

• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Linear, Jira, and Databricks
• Experience with AI security concerns including model and data access controls

What they offer

• Base salary of $130,000 to $210,000, with eligibility for incentive compensation and equity
• Equity in the form of RSUs, competitive benefits package, and modern 401(k) plan with crypto and financial wellness options
• Hybrid working arrangement with three days in-office and two days flexible work per week, plus paid parental leave and fertility benefits
• Discretionary time off, team lunches, snacks and drinks, and autonomy in how you structure your work