Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Leads the architecture, automation, observability, and reliability of multi-region AWS infrastructure supporting mission-critical payment systems. Requires 8+ years of distributed-systems experience and deep expertise in infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, automation, and cloud networking.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize multi-region, highly available AWS infrastructure for mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications.
- Lead the evolution from manually configured environments to standardized, globally scalable infrastructure managed as code.
- Replace manual operational work with self-healing automation using GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Build end-to-end telemetry and observability to identify bottlenecks proactively.
- Own incident management and conduct blameless postmortems to improve reliability.
- Design Golden Paths that improve engineering velocity and mentor teams on effective engineering practices.
- Architect and operate high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external customers.
- Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams on platform architecture, enablement, and adoption.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience owning outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments.
- Advanced AWS proficiency and experience using Terraform to build reproducible environments.
- Hands-on Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, and GitOps experience, including Flux, Argo, or GitHub Actions.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation and operational tooling.
- Deep experience implementing Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry at scale.
- Understanding of cloud security, API gateways, load balancing, and network isolation.
Nice to Have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, cryptology, or security products.
- BA/BS degree.
- Experience managing distributed data-streaming platforms such as Kafka/MSK.
- Database performance tuning and query optimization experience.
- Familiarity with Java and the Spring Framework.
Skills
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Amazon Eks, Docker, GitOps, Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions, Python, Go, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
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