Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Set architecture and technical direction for Savvy’s AWS and EKS footprint, including cluster topology, networking, IAM boundaries, and cost.
• Audit the existing infrastructure, identify weaknesses, and execute remediation while the business continues shipping.
• Define OpenTofu module structure, state management, deployment contracts, and engineering platform standards.
• Build SLOs, meaningful alerting, incident response processes, and on-call practices.
• Own production Postgres, Redis, and background job systems, including upgrades, failover, and capacity planning.
• Build tooling and internal services that create a reliable paved road for product engineers.
• Design and operate the compute layer for coding agents and LLM workloads.
• Mentor engineers who have been handling infrastructure work part-time.

Requirements

• At least 3 years as the escalation point for production Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, control plane, networking, and incidents.
• Experience taking over an existing infrastructure platform, evaluating what to retain or replace, and executing improvements without interrupting the business.
• Experience working on an infrastructure team of five or fewer where operational mistakes had material business, customer, or compliance consequences.
• Ability to build software such as controllers, CLIs, deployment systems, or internal services used by other engineers.
• Deep Terraform or OpenTofu experience covering module design, state management, and infrastructure drift.
• Production experience operating Postgres, including connection management, upgrades, and failover.
• Practical experience establishing useful CI/CD and observability practices.
• Fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar, with informed opinions about infrastructure for LLM and agent workloads.
• Experience operating Rails, Sidekiq, Django, Java, or another stateful monolithic application is preferred.
• Fintech or regulated-industry experience is preferred.
• Experience migrating from a managed PaaS to self-managed infrastructure is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Unlimited PTO and paid company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Company 401(k), commuter, and HSA/FSA plans.
• NYC office in Manhattan.
• Lunch and snacks provided in the office.
• Virtual mental health care through Spring Health and health concierge support through Rightway.
• Guardian WorkLifeMatters EAP counseling for stress management, dependent care, nutrition, fitness, legal, and financial issues.