Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Leads the architecture, automation, observability, and reliability of multi-region AWS infrastructure supporting high-throughput payments. Requires 10+ years of distributed-systems experience and deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and modern SRE practices.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize multi-region, high-availability AWS infrastructure for mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications.
- Evolve hand-crafted environments into a standardized, globally scalable fleet managed entirely through code.
- Replace manual toil with self-healing, automated infrastructure using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
- Build end-to-end telemetry to identify bottlenecks proactively.
- Own incident management and conduct blameless post-mortems to improve reliability.
- Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams to create standardized platform “Golden Paths.”
- Mentor engineering teams on effective, aligned development practices.
- Architect and operate high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external customers.
- Partner with engineering teams on platform enablement and adoption.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience owning outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments.
- Advanced AWS experience, including Terraform for reproducible infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including EKS, Docker, and GitOps workflows.
- Experience with Flux, Argo, and GitHub Actions.
- Strong coding 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-haves
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products.
- BA/BS degree.
- Experience managing distributed data streaming platforms such as Kafka/MSK.
- Database performance tuning and query optimization skills.
- Familiarity with Java and Spring Framework services.
- Ability to think creatively in a fast-paced startup environment.
Skills
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Amazon Eks, Docker, GitOps, Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions, Python, Go, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
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