Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure/DevOps

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and scale core infrastructure systems.
• Automate infrastructure lifecycle to minimize human intervention.
• Design secure connectivity across services, VPCs, accounts, and regions.
• Debug and resolve complex production issues across the stack.
• Write production-quality code, tools, and frameworks.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize infrastructure usage.

Core Infrastructure and Cloud Platform

• Design and evolve infrastructure on Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes.
• Build and scale multi-region and multi-account architectures.
• Implement secure and scalable service connectivity, including VPC, cross-account, and cross-region connectivity.

Security and Zero Trust

• Drive identity-based access and eliminate shared credentials.
• Implement secrets management with HashiCorp Vault.
• Enforce policies with Open Policy Agent.
• Design secure service-to-service communication and fine-grained IAM and access control systems.

Infrastructure as Code and Automation

• Build infrastructure using Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.
• Create reusable modules, abstractions, and fully automated provisioning workflows.
• Integrate infrastructure automation with GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

Cluster and Infrastructure Lifecycle

• Own the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters, including EKS, and databases such as RDS, Aurora, and ElastiCache.
• Automate cluster upgrades, migrations, node scaling, and patching.

Multi-Region and Migration Engineering

• Design region-agnostic infrastructure patterns.
• Enable automated region bootstrapping and failover.
• Lead region, account, and cloud migration initiatives.

Observability and Reliability

• Build and operate metrics, logging, and tracing systems using Prometheus, Grafana, the ELK Stack, and Datadog.
• Improve system reliability, alerting, and incident response.

Governance and Standards

• Define and enforce resource-tagging strategies and data-classification policies.
• Ensure cost visibility and auditability.

Developer Productivity and Platform

• Build self-service infrastructure workflows.
• Improve developer experience through automation and tooling.
• Contribute to internal platform evolution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, and Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong understanding of networking, including VPC, routing, DNS, and connectivity.
• Strong understanding of IAM and access control.
• Experience automating infrastructure workflows.
• Experience with highly available and scalable systems.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash.

Nice-to-Haves

• Multi-region or multi-account architecture experience.
• Experience automating infrastructure migrations and upgrades, including EKS upgrades.
• Experience with secrets-management platforms such as HashiCorp Vault.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code tools such as Open Policy Agent.
• Familiarity with observability systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.
• Exposure to data infrastructure such as Hadoop, Trino, and Spark.
• Exposure to service meshes such as Istio.

Compensation and Benefits

• Health coverage.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Quarterly self-care days off.
• Stock options.
• Equipment and support for working from home or in an office.
• Learning and development initiatives, including LinkedIn Learning.
• Wellness education sessions and employee resource group events.