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ColumnColumnSan Francisco, CA

Software Engineer

Builds and maintains critical infrastructure powering payments, developer tools, and core banking services including Federal Reserve integrations. Owns resiliency, CI/CD pipelines, and platform initiatives in a regulated financial environment.

130k – 250k/yr
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Build and maintain critical infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, security, and observability systems
  • Own core banking infrastructure, including direct integrations with the Federal Reserve and real-time payment networks
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and release engineering workflows
  • Improve system resiliency and availability through better monitoring, testing, and automation
  • Lead platform initiatives like authentication/authorization, change data capture, and cross-cutting APIs
  • Operate close to the metal: optimize performance, reliability, and correctness across our systems
  • Uphold the highest standards for system safety, especially in a regulated, mission-critical environment

Pay Transparency

Compensation packages at Column include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate's experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

The annual US base salary range for this role is $130,000-$250,000 + equity.

Skills

CI/CDKubernetesAWSTerraformDockerPrometheusGrafanaFederal Reserve IntegrationsReal-Time PaymentsAuthenticationChange Data Capture

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