The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, and operate the AWS-hosted cloud infrastructure for Mudflap's SaaS platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency. This role enables rapid and safe feature delivery while maintaining high customer trust through automation, observability, and compliance.
What You'll Do
- Own and operate Mudflap’s AWS + Cloudflare infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency while supporting scalable, predictable deployments.
- Manage and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, ECS, CircleCI) to improve automation, environment consistency, and developer velocity.
- Maintain and enhance observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, delivering actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLO/SLA metrics.
- Lead operational readiness and incident response, including capacity planning, system maintenance, structured RCA, and reliability improvements.
- Drive security and compliance initiatives, including IAM hardening, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and SOC 2 technical controls and documentation.
- Build tools, automation, and documentation that reduce manual work, increase system consistency, and support a scalable DevOps function.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience (2+ years with production AWS), with strong expertise in EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, VPC, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Deep experience with Terraform and IaC, plus strong CI/CD skills (CircleCI preferred) and modern deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
- Strong containerization, automation, and scripting abilities (Docker, ECS, Ruby/Python/Go/Bash).
- Hands-on observability and Linux systems engineering experience, including performance tuning, monitoring, logging, and secure configuration.
- Security and compliance background, ideally in fintech or regulated environments (SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001), with an understanding of IAM, encryption, secrets mgmt, and secure architecture.
- Proven incident leadership, collaboration skills, and a track record of reducing operational toil through automation.
Technical Stack
AWS, Cloudflare, Terraform, ECS, CircleCI, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, EC2, RDS, Aurora, VPC, S3, IAM, Docker, Ruby, Python, Go, Bash, Linux
Team & Environment
Engineering team collaborating with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and cross-functional members
Benefits & Compensation
- Commuter benefits to ease your travel
- Lunches and snacks to keep you fueled
- A collaborative, high-growth environment where you’ll work closely with talented teammates across the company
- Competitive salary of $190,000–$220,000 and equity in a high-growth startup
- Multiple health benefit options
- Responsible Time Off
- 401(k) matching
- Opportunities and support for major career growth
- Annual Company offsite event (Mudfest!)
Work Mode
Hybrid role with team locations in Palo Alto and Austin. Prefer candidates located in Palo Alto or Austin for occasional in-person meetings and team collaboration; open to remote members who can travel periodically if needed.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
