# Software Engineer (Infra)
**Company:** [Numeral](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/numeral)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Salary:** $180K-$300K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, ECS, Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, GraphQL, Kafka, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2025-09-09
> Builds and scales core infrastructure for a high-growth AI tax platform, focusing on reliable APIs, data pipelines, observability, and fault-tolerant distributed systems. Requires 7+ years experience with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Kubernetes, and observability tools.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Design and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support critical APIs, services, and data pipelines.
- Lead infrastructure architecture decisions for performance, observability, and fault tolerance.
- Drive improvements in system reliability, monitoring, and incident response.
- Collaborate closely with product, platform, and data engineering teams to enable rapid feature development without compromising stability.
- Automate infrastructure management through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration.
- Champion best practices in operational excellence, disaster recovery, and distributed systems design.

## Requirements
- **7+ years** of experience building and scaling backend or infrastructure systems in high-growth environments.
- Proficiency in **Node.js**, **PostgreSQL**, **Redis**, and **AWS** (or equivalent cloud platforms).
- Experience managing containerized workloads using tools like **Kubernetes**, **ECS**, or similar.
- Expertise in observability tooling (e.g., **Datadog**, **Prometheus**, **OpenTelemetry**) and monitoring pipelines.
- Proven ability to design fault-tolerant, distributed systems at scale.
- Strong debugging and performance optimization skills across the stack.
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering cross-functionally.
- Startup mindset: Not scared of ambiguity and hungry for rapid growth.
- Intensity & Ownership: This is not a 9-5 — we’re scaling rapidly and have a massive opportunity ahead.
- Customer Obsession: You deeply care about the user experience and solving their problems.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in payments, tax, accounting, or regulatory tech.
- Infrastructure or platform engineering background (e.g., **CI/CD**, observability).
- Experience scaling monolith-to-service architectures or event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with **GraphQL**, **Kafka**, **Terraform**, or container orchestration tools.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App.
- 401(k).
- Lunch and snacks when you’re in the office.
- Regular team offsites and company events.
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