Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Staff Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing and operating scalable infrastructure for growth systems, including onboarding, referrals, and user acquisition. The role requires 7+ years of production infrastructure experience, strong reliability instincts, and independent judgment in a high-autonomy environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain the infrastructure layer supporting onboarding flows, referral systems, and user acquisition pipelines.
- Debug reliability incidents affecting growth surfaces, own investigations end-to-end, and prevent recurrence.
- Review pull requests for infrastructure soundness, scalability, and high-traffic risks.
- Instrument data pipelines to identify bottlenecks and failure points before production impact.
- Coordinate with growth engineering on hardening systems versus shipping new functionality.
- Establish infrastructure standards and patterns for the growth team.
- Define boundaries for ambiguous cross-team systems and drive improvements independently.
Requirements
- 7+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience, including substantial production ownership.
- Proven experience shipping systems under significant user-growth pressure.
- Ability to own systems end-to-end with minimal oversight and make decisions amid ambiguity.
- Experience proactively reducing incidents and identifying bottlenecks in data pipelines or user-facing flows.
- Strong judgment balancing shipping velocity with correctness.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building growth infrastructure, such as referral systems, onboarding flows, or user acquisition tooling.
- Experience working in small, high-autonomy engineering teams.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $250,000–$500,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Hardware setup including a MacBook Pro, display, and accessories.
Skills
Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, Production Systems, Data Pipelines, Incident Management, Scalability, Reliability Engineering, Onboarding Flows, Referral Systems, User Acquisition
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