Staff Infrastructure Engineer

VGS

5d•$145,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a 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.

Requirements

Ownership at Scale: 8+ 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.

Nice To Haves

Experience with tokenization, payment processing, cryptology, 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.

Responsibilities

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.