Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Rally

4d•$190,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

As Rally's founding Platform / Infrastructure Engineer, you'll take full ownership of our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and developer experience — building the foundation that lets our engineering team move fast, ship reliably, and scale into an AI-native future. You'll be the dedicated owner of Rally's CI/CD platform, Terraform infrastructure, preview environments, and agentic platform foundations — building from the ground up and setting the standard for how we scale. You'll join our Engineering team as the founding member of a dedicated infrastructure function, reporting directly to a founding engineer Melvin, and working closely with leadership. You'll work closely with Platform and Product Engineers across the stack. Rally is a remote-first company with teammates across the US and Canada. We default to async communication, use clear written documentation to keep everyone in the loop, and reserve meetings for collaboration, decision-making, and relationship building. Rally is the User Research CRM that helps product, design, and research teams talk to their users quickly, safely, and at scale. Our platform automates the unglamorous parts of research—participant recruitment, outreach, screening, scheduling, consent, and incentives—so teams can spend more time learning from customers and less time wrestling with manual workflows. We're now building Rally's next chapter: an AI-native platform that handles the full research recruiting lifecycle, end to end. Trusted by teams at Google, Adobe, Figma, GitLab, Webflow, and others. Backed by Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, and Canapi Ventures. Rally Engineering is a highly collaborative, user-obsessed group focused on making research smoother for both our customers and their participants. We work closely with UX Researchers, Research Ops leaders, designers, and product managers at some of the world's most user-centric companies. We use Rally to build Rally — talking to our own users frequently, running studies on our platform, and feeding insights straight into the roadmap. We favor small, empowered teams, high ownership, and a tight feedback loop between customers, product, and engineering. We're hiring our first dedicated infrastructure engineer to take Rally from 1→10 on platform maturity. You'll have end-to-end ownership of CI/CD, developer experience, cloud infrastructure, and the agentic platform foundations that will define Rally's next chapter. Rally is in the middle of a massive shift in how companies run user research: from ad-hoc, one-off projects to continuous learning that informs every product decision. In this role, you'll help define what that future looks like — for Rally as a product and for the teams who rely on us to run research at scale. You'll join at a stage where we have strong product-market fit, a fast-growing customer base, and plenty of hard, interesting problems left to solve.

Requirements

5+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE
Deep AWS experience: ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, MSK, DynamoDB
Production Terraform with a track record of improving IaC maturity
CI/CD platform experience
Strong observability fundamentals

Nice To Haves

Early/founding platform team experience
Node.js/TypeScript familiarity (Prisma, GraphQL)
Kafka or equivalent event streaming operations
Temporal or similar workflow orchestration
Deploying Ephemeral/preview environments for complex distributed monolith architectures
FinOps practices and cost tooling
Edge/CDN deployment (CloudFront, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel)

Responsibilities

Evaluate, select, and own Rally's CI/CD platform.
Define and track DORA metrics to drive continuous improvement in delivery velocity.
Build on-demand ephemeral preview environments for a large service footprint that can't run locally.
Improve inner-loop developer workflows: build times, local tooling, and service scaffolding.
Own Rally's full AWS stack (ECS/Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, MSK, DynamoDB), and mature our Terraform IaC — modularization, drift detection, CI for infra changes.
Own cost optimization and per-team cost visibility.
Maintain and evolve Rally's Datadog observability stack.
Build automation tools and runbooks to reduce operational toil and accelerate incident recovery.
Drive post-incident reviews and translate findings into systemic improvements that prevent recurrence.
Container scanning, secrets management, IAM least-privilege enforcement.
Support SOC 2 audit requirements as needed.