Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.
Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.
Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.
Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.
For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.
The Team You’ll Work With
The Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for providing secure, reliable, scalable and performant Infrastructure to Carta’s customers and developers.
We are Software, Infrastructure and Security Engineers who specialize in cloud computing, networking, systems design and architecture, storage, real time data telemetry, associated automation, tooling and processes. We possess a breadth and depth of knowledge about Carta’s infrastructure and industry wide best practices, that translates into leverage for Carta’s business.
The Problems You’ll Solve
We welcome leaders who can lead diverse, thoughtful, and driven engineers while balancing technical direction, collaboration and people development.
As a Director of Engineering, here are some of the exciting problems you’ll solve:
- Lead: Mentor, grow, and empower your team.
- Own: Be responsible for the security, availability, scalability and reliability of Carta's cloud infrastructure.
- Partner: Partner with peer organizations throughout the company to ensure that their infrastructure needs are met. Platform-as-a-Service experience is a critical component of this role.
- Deliver: Build a culture of execution excellence. Define metrics, tools, and practices to ensure the team is delivering significant business impact.
- Handle performance: Provide (and seek) regular feedback from your teams.
- Technical direction: Directionally align the design and technology choices with overall engineering strategy. Align initiatives with the top business goals at Carta.
- Hiring: Bring the best talent to help build and grow Carta’s infrastructure posture.
About You
You will act as a technical leader on all things related to the team’s domain architecture to help and empower engineers in making technical decisions. You will work closely with other Platform Infrastructure and Product teams to build, secure and scale their services.
You are excited by the idea of developing scalable, secure, reliable and efficient infrastructure that powers the entire company. Our stack is Python, Java, Terraform, gRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, running on AWS. Come join us!
Here is what we are looking for:
- Experience in successfully delivering large scale projects that include technical deep-dives and solving production issues in all or some of these areas: compute, networking, communications, storage, operating systems, and software engineering.
- A consistent track record of leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring geographically distributed teams.
- Experience writing production quality code in a major programming language, such as Python, Java, Go.
- Ability to empower teams and resolve disagreements with empathy and clarity.
- Experience in building services and have successfully taken projects from inception to production.
- Deep understanding of Linux, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with service mesh architecture is a big plus.
- Endorsement of infrastructure as a code and passion for software development and automation. Experience managing infrastructure cost is a big plus.
- A strong perspective on positive customer and developer experience
- Production experience with building infrastructure on public cloud technologies and leading incident Management at scale.
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, data security and vulnerability management.
Salary
Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:
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$283,500 - $378,000 in San Francisco,CA, Santa Clara, CA, and New York City, NY
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$269,325 - $359,100 in Seattle, WA
Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.
Disclosures:
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We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the talent partner via email.
- Carta uses E-Verify in the United States for employment authorization. See the E-Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
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Interested in data privacy? Check out our policies on Privacy and CA Candidate Privacy.
- Please note that all official communications from us will come from an @carta.com or @carta-external.com domain. Report any contact from unapproved domains to [email protected].
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What We Do
Carta develops purpose-built software that transforms traditional accounting into a powerful growth engine.
Carta’s world-class fund administration platform supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under management in venture capital and private equity.
Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Carta also helps private businesses in over 160 countries manage their cap tables, valuations, taxes, equity programs, compensation, and more.
Together, Carta is setting a new standard as the end-to-end platform for private markets. Our best-in-class solution for fund management seamlessly integrates investor and portfolio company insights via a suite of tools designed ground-up to support the strategic impact of the fund CFO.
Carta has been included on the Fortune Best Large Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance list, Forbes’ list of the World's Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.'s Fastest-Growing Private Companies list. For more information, visit carta.com.
Why Work With Us
Carta is a place where everyone can be the best version of themselves. We're a team of unconventional builders who's focus is to create infrastructure for innovators. Join our team and help us to create more owners.
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