Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Current • New York, NY

6d • $215,000 - $295,000

About The Position

The Infrastructure team owns the reliability and performance of the platform behind Current products, including the live application, managed database services, data stores, pipelines, and internal tooling. This backend-focused Staff Software Engineer will own infrastructure domains spanning several squads and work with frontend and backend engineers across the company. The role sets technical direction and leads work to keep the platform fast, resilient, and secure. It is a senior individual contributor position with broad engineering influence and no team management responsibilities.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software or infrastructure engineering experience with a backend focus, including at least 3 years owning production infrastructure used by multiple teams.
• Prior leadership of regional resilience projects, such as multi-region operations, failover, or disaster recovery, and application performance projects in production.
• Experience building and operating Java backend services and working in Java services and shared libraries.
• Production experience with MongoDB at scale, including performance tuning, indexing, replication, capacity planning, and upgrades.
• Cloud operations experience on Kubernetes, including production cluster operations, upgrades, autoscaling, and multi-cluster setups.
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code, ideally using Terraform.
• Experience with observability tools for metrics, tracing, logging, and alerting, and using them to lead incident response.
• Experience building or operating data pipelines that move production data.
• Hands-on experience with agentic tooling, such as AI coding agents or MCP servers.
• Strong communication skills, including writing clear RFCs and leading cross-team decisions through influence rather than authority.

Nice To Haves

• Application profiling experience, such as JVM profiling, flame graphs, or continuous profiling.
• Cloud networking experience, including VPC design, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS, and service mesh.
• Fintech or regulated financial services experience, such as SOC 2 or PCI DSS compliance.
• Cloud security experience, including IAM, workload identity, network policies, pod security, and secrets management.
• A cloud or Kubernetes certification, such as Google Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect, or CKA.
• Experience with Google Cloud, including GKE.

Responsibilities

• Own the stability and performance of core services and data stores across several squads.
• Lead regional resilience work, including multi-region operation and failover.
• Lead application performance work with frontend and backend engineers by identifying and resolving bottlenecks across services, data stores, and networks.
• Plan and run service and database migrations with zero downtime.
• Own the reliability and performance of data pipelines that move production data between services and data stores.
• Improve shared engineering tooling for building, deploying, and operating services, including agentic tooling.
• Lead infrastructure incident response and ensure postmortem actions are completed.
• Set technical direction through design reviews and clearly explain tradeoffs to engineers, product partners, and leadership.
• Improve the quality of other engineers' work through design reviews, pairing, and mentoring.
• Partner with Security and Compliance to meet the standards of a regulated financial services company.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
• 401(k) plan
• Discretionary performance bonus program
• Biannual performance reviews
• Medical, dental, and vision premiums covered at 100% for the employee and dependents
• Flexible time off and paid holidays
• Generous parental leave policy
• Commuter benefits
• Fitness benefits
• Healthcare and dependent care FSA benefit
• Employee Assistance Programs focused on mental health
• Healthcare advocacy program for all employees
• Access to mental health apps
• Team building activities
• Modern NYC-based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches

What This Job Offers

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