Job Description

Instawork's vision is to create economic opportunities for local businesses and skilled hourly workers in communities around the world. With an AI-first approach, we're supercharging the leading online labor marketplace and looking for exceptional talent to help us build the future of hourly work. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and more, we want you to help us continue to scale quickly and make an even greater impact.
We are looking for the founding member of our APAC IT/Security team. As a Senior IT Engineer/Specialist, this person will help build and maintain a broad array of enterprise systems, networks, and technologies. Reporting to the Head of IT and Security, this role serves as a critical member of the IT engineering team, requires a firm grasp on general IT knowledge, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, good coding/scripting skills, and the ability to learn quickly and adapt to different challenges. You will identify and build solutions that will impact business processes and workflow, interfacing internally and externally with vendors and consultants to support technology solutions. This position is required to be in the office a couple of days a week.
What You'll Do

• Receive, assess IT support tickets from employees and address IT issues in a timely, professional, and properly prioritized manner
• Assist with account management, including hardware, software, and application permissions, and other generic IT/network requests as necessary
• Work with external IT partners/vendors to coordinate the delivery and return of IT assets
• Serve as escalation point for the IT helpdesk support tickets, escalating issues as needed
• Provide on-site IT/network support for for internal employees when needed
• Support higher-level IT and Security initiatives including implementations, evaluations and integrations of programs and processes
• Maintain updated IT documentation
• Adhere to responsible change management, documentation, and business continuity best-practice and process in coordination with and in support of all team members
• Work collaboratively with other IT team members, other internal stakeholders, and external IT partners as one team to solve problems and develop solutions in support of our team and our business
• Maintain updated project trackers, reports, or dashboards as helpful and efficient to support IT projects and initiatives
• On-call duty as rotation requires (global time zone)

Who You Are

• Bachelor's Degree or higher within Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines: technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management, and/or operations
• 2+ years of working experience with agile methods and processes
• Service oriented, collaborative, and security mindset, dedication to best-practice and continuous improvements
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to self-organize
• In-depth experience with Google Workspace/G-Suite management
• Experience in troubleshooting techniques (including RCA) and ticket triage
• Experience with modern OS e.g., MacOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android
• Experience managing endpoints in an enterprise environment, preferably with MDM software e.g., MS Intune and Jamf
• Experience with users management through IdP services e.g., MS AD, Google groups, Okta groups, and/or other related technologies
• Experience with business SaaS applications management, especially around collaboration technologies (e.g., chat, VoIP calls, video conferencing)
• Experience with service automation through coding/scripting
• Ability to meet deadlines and follow through on assigned projects
• Ability to work in a changing environment while maintaining quality and productivity
• Ability to plan, drive, and support multiple, concurrent projects and initiatives

Nice to Have

• 2+ years of working experience with software development or security engineering
• Experience with Django development framework (Django admin)
• Experience with ITSM and HRIS integrations
• Experience with IT and InfoSec/Privacy industry-standard compliance frameworks
• Experience with VPN and/or Zero Trust configuration
• Experience with Cloud (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerized environment
• Ability to learn/work with networking devices configuration and troubleshooting e.g., firewalls, switches, and routers/access points

Why Explore a career at Instawork
Everyone at Instawork works across the stack. You'll have the opportunity to work cross-functionally with product, engineering, operations teams to make an impact on the overall success of the business. You'll have the opportunity to grow and advance both technical and leadership skills. You'd own a career here with Instawork!
We work hard and we work fast. We err on the side of being bold and embrace + celebrate failure, because we'd rather make bets on great features at the expense of shipping some bad ones.
Perks

• Health Insurance for you and Family
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Broadband Reimbursement
• Home Office Setup Allowance

Instawork Values
Bias for Action -- We are a growing team and an evolving product. We want a team of do'ers to drive the company forward, even if it means making decisions with incomplete information or being wrong.
Act Like an Owner -- Treat this company as though it is your own. Execute on the fundamentals, and act creatively to drive growth. Your ability to drive impact in any part of our company is only limited by your courage and conviction, not your job title.
Always Be Learning -- We are changing an entire industry. We strive to learn from each other and get better each day, week, and month, so that our team's learnings can compound and we can all improve, together.
Empathy, Trust, Candor -- Empathy for our business partners and professionals means we put ourselves in their shoes. Empathy for our colleagues means we are always upfront and honest with each other, which comes from trust.
Our Values
Empathy, Trust & Candor
We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don't shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it's OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!
Always Be Learning
We're a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.
Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.
About Instawork
Founded in 2015, is the nation's leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies-and we're just getting started!
Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we're doing it at scale.
Join our team to help us build something that matters! We're looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Ready to make an impact
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