Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own AWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including migration from ECS/Fargate toward a more modern scalable runtime.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code and container foundations using Terraform and Docker.
• Develop CI/CD systems, ephemeral environments, preview deployments, and developer experience improvements.
• Define observability standards across metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead high-severity incidents, on-call operations, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
• Design resilient and scalable systems, write production-quality automation, reduce toil, and lower operational risk.
• Mentor engineers and influence infrastructure practices and engineering decisions across teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles.
• Experience with a modern programming language such as TypeScript and a track record of writing production-quality scripts, tools, and services while remaining hands-on.
• Deep experience running production workloads on AWS, including container platforms such as ECS/Fargate.
• Expertise with Terraform, Docker, and Git workflows in production.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, including build parallelization and developer experience improvements.
• Deep experience with observability, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Experience operating distributed systems at scale, including messaging systems, partitioning, deployment strategies, and failure modes.
• Track record of leading high-severity incidents, debugging live production issues, and running blameless postmortems.
• Experience evaluating architectures, making trade-offs, and driving infrastructure decisions across teams and environments.
• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping infrastructure practices across an engineering organization.
• Nice to have: broad infrastructure ownership at a high-growth startup, Kafka or similar distributed messaging experience, developer tooling experience, and Prisma expertise.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Up to 100% employer-covered monthly medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• Lunch provided through Sharebite and dinner for later in-office days.
• Parental leave of up to 12 weeks.
• Tax-free commuter and parking benefits.
• Voluntary life, hospital, critical illness, and accident insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program through Rightway.
• Free One Medical membership and a 401(k).
• Full-time role based onsite in the Soho office in New York City.