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title: 'Infrastructure Engineer at Triumph'
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# Infrastructure Engineer at Triumph

- **Company:** Triumph
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$400k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/triumph-arcade/60b13af3-b81f-4e92-8914-ca4aba599f22/application

**Skills:** Postgres, CI/CD, Observability, Telemetry, Query Optimization, Connection Pooling, Replication, Read Routing, Metrics, Tracing, Structured Logging, Alerting, Go, AlloyDB

> As the first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer, you will establish the infrastructure function, own CI/CD pipelines, scale backend systems, and drive database and observability strategies for a high-growth platform.

## Job description

## The Role

As Triumph's first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer, you'll own the foundation that everything else runs on. Until now, our infrastructure has been built and maintained by the core engineering team alongside everything else — you'll be the first person whose entire mandate is to make it fast, observable, and bulletproof. Our platform touches gaming, finance, and social at scale, which means there's no margin for downtime. You'll define how we build, ship, and scale from the ground up — CI/CD pipelines, the databases under our highest-traffic paths, and the telemetry that tells us what's actually happening in production. This is a greenfield mandate: you're not inheriting an infra org, you're starting one. As we scale toward our next order of magnitude of growth, you'll set the standards every future infrastructure hire builds on.

## What You'll Do

- Establish Triumph's infrastructure function — set the standards, tooling, and practices that the team and future hires will build on.
- Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, making it fast and safe for a growing team to ship continuously.
- Take end-to-end ownership of scaling our backend systems, identifying bottlenecks before they become incidents and designing for the next 10x rather than the last one.
- Drive our database strategy as a deep Postgres expert — query optimization, connection pooling, replication and read routing, schema evolution, and keeping our highest-traffic data paths healthy under load.
- Build out observability and telemetry so the team can see, understand, and act on system behavior in real time — metrics, tracing, structured logging, and meaningful alerting.
- Partner with backend engineers to harden the systems that power our core business, from incident response to the architectural decisions that prevent the next one.

## Qualifications

- Strong experience operating and scaling large production systems, with a track record of true ownership — you don't just build it, you keep it healthy.
- Deep Postgres knowledge: you understand query planning, indexing, connection management, and what actually breaks at scale (Go and AlloyDB experience is a plus).
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Fluency with observability and telemetry tooling, and an instinct for what to measure.
- Comfort being the first and only person in a function — you're excited to set direction rather than inherit it, and you drive work to completion without a playbook handed to you.
- Tenacity, pragmatism, and high agency — you prioritize the most impactful work and drive it to completion.

Why Triumph?

- High growth. Build a high-scale consumer platform that touches gaming, finance, and social with the autonomy to set our infrastructure direction.
- High agency. As our founding infrastructure hire, you'll own a large surface area from day one, with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.
- High energy. Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity (16x year over year growth).
- Competitive salary and benefits. $400/mo lunch credit, healthcare, vision, dental, 401k, etc.

Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph's headquarters at Levi's Plaza in San Francisco.

## About Triumph

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Triumph builds a real-money platform that layers financial stakes onto in-house built video games and collectibles, creating a new category of consumer entertainment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Jake Brooks (CEO), Jared Geller (Co-founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer entertainment / Real-money gaming / Fintech for collectibles
- **Target customers**: B2C – consumers who play competitive games and collect digital/physical collectibles
- **Mission/purpose**: “Financialization of everything” – building the next $100B entertainment platform where real stakes meet novel consumer experiences.

## Products & Services
- **Arcade by Triumph**: A mobile app that layers real stakes onto in-house built video games. Players can wager cash on the outcomes of skill-based tournaments. Features anti-cheating, fair matchmaking, and seamless tournament infrastructure. [triumpharcade.com](https://triumpharcade.com/)
- **Rips by Triumph**: A financial layer for the universe of collectibles, enabling users to trade, speculate, and monetize collectible assets. [triumpharcade.com](https://triumpharcade.com/)

Both apps are reported to be #1 in their respective App Store categories.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed (post-money valuation not publicly available)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised: **$46.1M** (as of Series B in August 2025). Latest round: **$24M Series B** (August 2025). Prior Series A: **$12.1M** (May 2023). [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DraftKings, Flux Capital, 90 Sheridan Street, and 20+ other investors. First-ever investor: Michael Fertik. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **162.5% YoY** to 47 employees (2026). Both apps #1 in their categories. Active job postings increased 500% year-over-year. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/triumphlabs) [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)

## Competitive Advantages
- **In-house game development** combined with financial rails – rare integration of skill-based gaming and real-money wagering.
- **Anti-cheat and fair matchmaking** systems that create a trusted environment for real-money play.
- **Elite team** composed of ex-quant traders, ex-founders, world champion video game players, and top artists/entertainers – a mix not easily replicated.
- **Network effects** from two complementary products (gaming and collectibles) that share a user base and financial infrastructure.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the platform** to become a $100B entertainment company by expanding user acquisition, launching new games and collectible markets, and deepening the financial layer.
- **Hire aggressively** across engineering, data, product, operations, and marketing to support rapid growth (16+ open roles as of mid-2026).
- **Maintain in-office culture** (5 days/week in San Francisco) to accelerate collaboration and speed of execution.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Generalists who care about craft, ship fast, and own outcomes end-to-end.” The team includes ex-quant traders, founders, world champion gamers, and top artists – a high-caliber, interdisciplinary environment.
- **Work policy**: **5 days a week in San Francisco** (HQ at 90 Sheridan Street, SF, CA). Remote roles exist only for Customer Support and some Operations shifts.
- **Compensation**: Engineering salaries range **$200K–$400K** with equity. Roles like Engineering Manager ($275K–$400K), Quant Strategist ($200K–$400K), and Data Scientist ($200K–$400K) are listed. [triumpharcade.com/jobs](https://www.triumpharcade.com/jobs)
- **Impact**: “Your work will touch millions of users immediately” – the platform already handles billions of user interactions and billions in volume.
- **Notable perks**: Equity offered for most roles; fast-paced startup with clear growth trajectory; opportunity to work at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and culture.

## Sources
1. [triumpharcade.com](https://triumpharcade.com/)
2. [triumpharcade.com/jobs](https://www.triumpharcade.com/jobs)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/triumph-arcade](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/triumph-arcade)
4. [linkedin.com/company/triumphlabs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/triumphlabs)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/489814-66)

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