Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Leads cloud infrastructure, platform strategy, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure automation for a growing consumer platform. Requires 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE, plus deep AWS, coding, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead infrastructure strategy and key decisions across cloud architecture, platform strategy, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure.
- Develop internal tools, automation, and backend services that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
- Partner with engineering and data teams to support current needs and future scale.
- Establish infrastructure best practices and mentor engineers on cloud architecture, observability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, VPC, and IAM.
- Strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
- Experience building internal tools, automation scripts, and infrastructure services.
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and incident response.
- Experience leading infrastructure initiatives and making architectural decisions.
- Excellent communication, judgment, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to balance cost, performance, security, and velocity in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience at a high-growth-stage company.
- Experience mentoring engineers and establishing engineering best practices.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $170,000–$210,000 annually.
- Competitive equity compensation.
- Comprehensive health benefits.
- Flexible time off and 12 paid holidays annually.
- 21 annual credits for stays in company homes.
- $4,000 annual travel stipend.
- Remote-first, remote-flexible work environment.
- Team and company offsites.
Skills
AWS, Amazon Ec2, Amazon Ecs, Kubernetes, Amazon Rds, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Vpc, Aws Iam, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Docker, Terraform
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