Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**The Company**:
Arta is on an audacious and incredibly rewarding mission: to pave the way for people everywhere to lead more successful financial lives. Arta leverages AI and sophisticated digital tools—once reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals—and makes them accessible to a broader global audience. Think of it as your own digital _family office_, combining intelligent investment strategies, alternative assets, private market access, and smart automation to help you grow and protect your wealth effortlessly. We value trust, teamwork, and adaptability.

**The Team**:
The General Engineering team within Arta is building
- [SAMPLE: Infra team description] the backbone of this mission, from ingesting data and making it accessible to our UI, research and trading services to managing people's money and investment to external market integration with various fintech services._
- Everything at Arta evolves around data: training and running our ML models, managing users wealth, providing powerful user interfaces. This not only requires us to ingest and store data efficiently, but making it available to a variety of services - all with their own requirements and constraints. Your role is building this internal service that works across a wide range of data (market data, economic data ) and combines it into one consistent model._

**The Role**:
As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure across the entire stack—ranging from user-serving servers, data pipelines and storage systems to trading platforms and research infrastructure. You will play a critical role in supporting both real-time and batch workflows, ensuring scalability, performance, and high reliability for mission-critical systems.

**What You Will Do**:

- Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure supporting both real-time and batch workflows, with a focus on high-throughput, low-latency data processing for autonomous trading, quantitative research, and user-serving servers with high uptime.
- Collaborate closely with frontend, research, and trading teams to ensure infrastructure and data pipelines meet performance, precision, and usability needs.
- Integrate third-party platforms and data providers, ensuring secure and reliable API/data stream ingestion, and handle complex external data integration challenges.
- Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies in distributed systems, optimizing performance and resource usage.
- Own deployment pipelines and production operations to ensure **high availability**, **fault tolerance**, and **observability** of critical services
- Architect and implement scalable systems that support **high-throughput, low-latency data processing**, critical to autonomous trading and quantitative research
Ensure **data quality, consistency, and traceability** through rigorous testing, validation, and monitoring pipelines
- Enforce security best practices and collaborate with internal stakeholders to meet compliance, audit, and governance requirements
- Contribute to architectural decision-making, documentation, and mentoring of teammates in infrastructure best practices and automation strategies.
- Continuously improve the reliability and availability of production systems, using automation to reduce toil and manual interventions.

**Who You Are**:

- At least 8-10 years of overall software development experience.
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms such as [AWS/Azure], and preferably GCP, along with cloud-native technologies.
- Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), orchestration technologies, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Pulumi.
- A deep understanding of security best practices in cloud environments.
- Proven ability to work in cross-functional teams, collaborating effectively with frontend, research, and trading teams.
- Strong problem-solving and optimization skills, with experience tackling complex scalability challenges, including user-serving infrastructure with high uptime.
- Prior experience in trading platforms or financial systems is highly preferred.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a fast-paced startup environment

**Interview Process**:

- Intro call with the Head of Talent, 30m
- Hiring Manager Interview with Singapore Tech Lead, 30m
- Technical Interview 1: Coding/Algorithm/Data Structure, 60m
- Technical Interview 2: Coding, Role Related Knowledge, and System Design, 60m
- co-Founder Interview with Edward Chiang (Product Manager), 30m

**What We Offer**:

- Robust health insurance offering for you and your family
- 20 weeks of parental leave
- 15 days PTO annually plus national and company holidays
- Up to SG$75 per month reimbursement for internet