Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Who you are

• Ownership at Scale: 10+ years of experience taking personal ownership of outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments
• AWS & Infrastructure-as-Code: Advanced proficiency in AWS ecosystems leveraging Terraform to build reproducible environments
• Containerization & Orchestration: Strong, hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions)
• Automation & Scripting: Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash to automate infrastructure and build operational tools
• Observability Expertise: Deep experience implementing Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry at scale
• Security & Networking Foundations: Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation, viewing security as a fundamental engineering constraint, not an afterthought
• Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
• BA/BS degree
• A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience managing distributed data streaming platforms like Kafka (MSK)
• Database performance tuning and query optimization skills
• Familiarity with Java / Spring Framework services

What the job involves

• As a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader on our Platform Engineering team
• You will architect, scale, and fortify global cloud infrastructure designed to handle mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications with zero downtime
• You will take ownership of key platform foundations powering our core payments infrastructure
• Rather than executing against a rigid task list or holding blanket ownership over the entire platform, you will drive the technical strategy, architecture, and reliability standards for your designated domains within our multi-region AWS environment
• We are looking for high-agency engineers who want to own complex distributed system challenges end-to-end and elevate how the entire engineering team operates
• If you thrive on solving complex distributed systems problems, building automated resiliency, and driving modern SRE practices, we want to build the future with you
• Build Immutable, Self-Healing Systems: Design, build, and optimize multi-region, high-availability AWS infrastructure. You will drive our evolution from hand-crafted environments to a standardized, globally scalable fleet managed entirely through code
• Drive Resiliency & Automation: Replace manual toil with self-healing, automated infrastructure using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and IaC
• Deep Observability & Resiliency: Build end-to-end telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to proactively spot bottlenecks. You will own incident management and conduct blameless post-mortems to continuously harden our reliability baseline
• Force-Multiply Engineering Velocity: Partner closely with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams and lead from the front by designing "Golden Paths" that strip away friction for feature teams. You will influence company-wide engineering practices and mentor the organization on how to move fast with high alignment
• Customer Impact: Architect and operate high-performance, low-latency private connectivity to optimize the experience for external customers. Partner strategically with internal engineering teams at the design and architectural level for platform enablement and adoption

Benefits

• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• 11 US company holidays
• Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
• New hire home office set up allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement