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Engine is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About the Role

Join Engine as a Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, where you will be a strategic leader defining the long-term vision and architectural strategy for the platform that powers our entire engineering organization. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will shape our infrastructure to transform business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple.

What You'll Do

  • Define and drive the multi-year roadmap for the cloud infrastructure platform, making high-stakes, strategic decisions around performance, cost, and maintainability.
  • Architect and lead the implementation of our strategic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform.
  • Own and drive the evolution of the organization's deployment ecosystem, setting the standard for secure, reliable, and high-velocity enterprise-wide deployment strategy.
  • Define the company's observability strategy (SLOs/SLIs) and lead major, cross-functional incident response efforts.
  • Architect and own the core platform capabilities and system-level contracts that unlock significant self-service capabilities for all product engineering teams.
  • Set the technical standards and best practices for infrastructure engineering across the organization. Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring to Senior and Principal engineers.
  • Partner with Security and Compliance leadership to integrate advanced security controls and policy enforcement mechanisms at the architectural layer.

What We're Looking For

  • 8+ years of high-impact experience in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure roles.
  • Proven history of designing and operating large-scale, multi-account production systems on AWS.
  • Deep expertise in system-level programming and architectural design in languages such as Go or Python.
  • Proven track record of owning critical outcomes end-to-end across multiple functions and driving results with multi-departmental impact.
  • Ability to think strategically across functions, connecting technology decisions to company objectives.
  • Expert-level knowledge of IaC (Terraform strongly preferred).
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating container orchestration systems (Kubernetes/EKS).
  • Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted technical advisor and driving change on cross-functional initiatives across a large group of stakeholders.

Nice to Have

  • Experience developing and evangelizing an Infrastructure as a Product (IaaP) or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) strategy.
  • Expertise in advanced cloud networking, Cloudflare, security primitives, and compliance frameworks.
  • Prior experience contributing to company strategy through innovative and effective solutions.

Technical Stack

  • AWS, Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS

Team & Environment

You will serve as the domain expert for infrastructure architecture and guide the technical direction of multiple engineering teams.

Benefits & Compensation

  • $137,300 - $190,000 USD base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
  • Full list of benefits available at engine.com/culture.

Work Mode

This is a remote position open to candidates in the USA.

Engine is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skills
AWSGoPythonTerraformKubernetesEKSInfrastructure as CodeDistributed SystemsCI/CDObservabilitySecurityNetworkingAutomationSystem Design
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Engine is transforming business travel by building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place. The company serves over 20,000 companies and 1 million travelers.

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Category infrastructure
Posted 3 months ago