Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure products or subsystems end to end, including design, delivery, operation, and production accountability.
• Define project goals, success metrics, technical designs, and risk mitigation plans.
• Build secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure for varied applications and workloads.
• Develop software and developer-facing tooling that improves engineering productivity and reduces toil.
• Manage infrastructure through Terraform and configuration patterns aligned with service architecture.
• Partner with product engineering teams to design services for scale and resolve ambiguous requirements.
• Participate in incident response, systematic debugging, monitoring improvements, and performance optimization.
• Apply security practices to personal work and peer reviews, including identifying vulnerabilities.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
• Lead cross-team collaboration and facilitate technical and process discussions with stakeholders.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering in primarily cloud-based environments, with AWS preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of significant products or subsystems through design, delivery, operation, and ongoing accountability.
• Strong hands-on experience managing infrastructure through Terraform or an equivalent tool.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure fundamentals, including networking, load balancing, containerization, EKS/Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Production-ready programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Hands-on production experience operating Redis/ElastiCache, including cluster and shard management, failover, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies.
• Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry, along with performance tuning and incident management.
• Fluency with software engineering practices including source control, code review, comprehensive testing, and safe deployment.
• Demonstrated autonomy, ownership, and ability to work with ambiguous requirements.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills for technical designs, reviews, and stakeholder updates.

Benefits

• 100% remote work arrangement with the ability to join from almost any country, subject to regulatory and security restrictions.
• US-based employees receive a cash compensation range of $152,000–$205,000.
• Fingerprint does not sponsor visas; team members must be authorized to work from their home location.
• Inclusive workplace focused on respecting, valuing, and empowering employees from diverse backgrounds.