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Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Career Mentors, LLCNew York, NY
$190,000 - $220,000Onsite

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.

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