About DKatalis

DKatalis is a financial technology company with multiple offices in the APAC region. In our quest to build a better financial world, one of our key goals is to create an ecosystem linked financial services business.

DKatalis is built and backed by experienced and successful entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors in Singapore and Indonesia who have more than 30 years of financial domain experience and are from top-tier schools like Stanford, Cambridge London Business School, JNU with more than 30 years of building financial services/banking experience from Bank BTPN, Danamon, Citibank, McKinsey & Co, Northstar, Farallon Capital, and HSBC.

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team and help build a stable and scale our infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. If you’re looking to be a part of a team who tackle real-world problems, DKatalis might just be the place for you! Work alongside world-class talents and join us as we use technology to make a change in the financial world.

Cloud Infrastructure at DKatalis:

The Cloud Infrastructure Team at Dakalis is a cross cutting engineering team with a mission to grow, support and deliver an agile, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure that powers Bank Jago’s digital banking platform.

Embracing and adopting modern Cloud Native and Infrastructure as Code as fore front practices, scale up the management and simplification of a complex cloud infrastructure with the goal of scaling a platform that is experiencing rapid growth in the millions of transactions and customers.

Technologies We Use:

• Cloud Infra: Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker
• Devops: Gitlab, Terraform, Ansible, Sonarqube, Sonatype Nexus, Vault
• Datastore and Service Bus: Redis, Mongo, Kafka
• Monitoring: Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, GCP Monitoring, Pagerduty

Role and Responsibilities:

• Possess deep knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes and Cloud infrastructure platforms such as GCP and AWS
• 5+ years of experience managing technical projects within infrastructure and cloud domains.
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, using continuous integration/delivery tools
• Experience in application containerization and deploying container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Ability to balance doing things right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and pragmatic, while working towards improving the long-term health of the system.
• You have a strong systems experience and have an analytical approach to identifying problem components based on data points. 
• Be passionate about security compliance, zero downtime infrastructure and highly scalable environments
• Be willing to coach, mentor and grow a team of talented cloud infrastructure engineers
• Have good communication skills and be comfortable working with product owners and domain experts to understand requirements
• Oversee end-to-end Platform architecture and roadmap focused on best-practice approaches to design, security, testing, and performance
• Comfortable working cross-functionally to ensure success of the infrastructure and operations. You will be closely collaborating with other engineering and product teams to ensure that expected system behavior is understood and monitoring exists to detect anomalies.
• Lead in-depth technical and data analysis to gauge service trends and drive improvements.
• You are comfortable with on-call responsibility and are able to manage a crisis working with the broader team, communicating progress and challenges during the crisis.
• Participate in continuous improvement and execution of quality and timely major incident root cause analysis and blameless post-mortem activities to ensure we take action to avoid similar problems in the future.

Requirements:

• You are either a Sysadmin or Infrastructure engineer ideally strong in Linux systems, networking, monitoring and automation; preferably have experience working on distributed systems at scale.
• At least 5 years of hands-on-experience in architecting, designing, developing and implementing cloud solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCE, GKE, GAE, GCS, Cloud SQL, VPC, Resource Manager, StackDriver, Cloud CDN, Cloud IAM)
• Scripting - Terraform, Bash, Shell, Python (bonus)
• Configuration Management - Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc
• Experience with - Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, ELK
• Exposure to relational, no-sql databases and caching solutions - Mongodb, Redis
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Capable of working in a complex, fast paced environment and ability to maintain calm during stressful situations

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.