Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Career Mentors, LLC • New York, NY

3d • $190,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Own self-hosted deployments for sensitive federal/defense customers. Start hands-on with diverse environments (cloud to air-gapped on-prem), customer guidance, and debugging; evolve to automation and broader infrastructure platform ownership.

Requirements

• 3+ years infrastructure software engineering.
• Production Kubernetes ownership.
• On-call debugging experience.
• Startup background (Series B/C preferred); forward-deployed or gov-sector nice-to-have.
• Proficiency in Pulumi/Terraform; strong networking/OS/cybersecurity.
• Regulated env experience (FedRAMP/CMMC/NIST).
• Automation mindset; strong communication.
• US Person per ITAR; TS/SCI major plus.

Responsibilities

• Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure for large customers across heterogeneous setups.
• Harden security configurations and support compliant architectures (FedRAMP Moderate equivalent, CMMC, NIST SP 800-53, IL-5/6).
• Contribute to the product codebase for deployability, observability, and reliability.
• Act as forward-deployed engineer (potential on-site classified work).
• Debug complex issues in novel environments; improve observability.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• Build automation, playbooks, and tools for scalable multi-customer support.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed