Staff Infrastructure Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the reliability, performance and cost of a company's production cloud infrastructure, from architecture and database operations to setting the standards the engineering team works to. Advise leadership on early-stage infrastructure choices as the platform scales.

What you'll do

• Design and evolve cloud architecture on AWS.
• Run production database operations, including sizing, replication and recovery.
• Set and maintain reliability standards for production systems.
• Improve the performance and cost efficiency of live infrastructure.
• Advise the team on which languages and databases to adopt early on.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Deep AWS expertise.
• Hands-on experience tuning and operating PostgreSQL in production.
• Experience building cloud infrastructure from scratch, provisioning resources directly rather than only using existing internal tools.
• Proven results improving response times or spend in running environments, with support for time-sensitive workloads.
• Daily use of AI coding tools in infrastructure work, or a willingness to learn them.

Bonus points

• Prior experience reworking the design of a live system to handle growth without downtime.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 200,000 to 260,000 per year
• Equity
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan with company match
• Flexible time off
• Professional development training

Location and work model

• Palo Alto, California, United States
• Hybrid, with in-office days as needed
• Full-time