About Engine
At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.
To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.
More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.
Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.
As Staff Engineer on the Control Plane / Core team, you're one of a handful of people who set the technical direction for how every engineering team at Engine builds and ships. You won't be embedded in a single vertical — you're working on the substrate underneath all of them.
You'll be hands-on with
- AWS control plane— multi-account architecture, account vending, VPC networking, organizational guardrails, IAM boundaries.
- CI/CD platform— template pipelines, shared GitHub Actions/workflows, org-level policies, secret distribution. You moderate what's shared; teams contribute upward.
- Terraform execution— Terraform Cloud workspaces, module registry, our internal modules, the tooling that lets a feature team stand up a namespace and start shipping in hours, not weeks.
- Networking & security— Cloudflare (WAF, DNS, WARP, page rules), core network topology, certificate management.
- Vendor integrations— Datadog, JFrog, Terraform Cloud, GitHub OIDC — the connective tissue between vendors and our accounts.
- Cost observability— tooling and dashboards that give teams visibility into what they own and spend.
You'll also be a force multiplier for the embedded engineers: the patterns, modules, and primitives you build are what they hand to feature teams. When something embedded engineers keep solving locally needs to become a paved road, that's your work.
What You'll Do
- Lead the technical evolution of the control plane — not just keep it running, but decide where it goes next.
- Design and ship platform primitives (Terraform modules, pipeline templates, account/networking patterns) that feature teams adopt because they're better than the alternative — not because they're mandated.
- Partner with embedded infra engineers to identify recurring friction across verticals and turn it into self-serve capability.
- Own the boring-but-critical work: AWS Organization hygiene, CI/CD reliability, vendor contracts and integration health, incident response on shared infrastructure.
- Mentor across the discipline. We hold infra standups twice a week — that's where you'll teach, learn, and stay aligned with the embedded engineers.
- Reduce the SDLC step-function count. Every new approval gate, every "ask infra first" workflow is a tax — your job is to lower it.
What We're Looking For
Required
- 8+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with deep AWS expertise (multi-account, networking, IAM, security boundaries).
- Expert-level Terraform — you've designed reusable modules, run TFC at scale, and have opinions about state, drift, and execution patterns.
- Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC, secret management.
- Experience with platform engineering: shipping internal tools and abstractions that other engineers actually want to use.
- A bias toward enabling teams over gatekeeping. You'd rather build the paved road than approve the off-road permits.
Strongly preferred
- Cloudflare (WAF, DNS, zero-trust/WARP) at production scale.
- Datadog, JFrog, or comparable vendor integration experience.
- Background in cost observability or FinOps tooling.
- History of working in or alongside embedded/platform models — you understand the difference between a platform team and a ticket queue.
The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation
We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:
- Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
- Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more.
Ready to Build the Future of Work Travel?
Join us on our mission to transform how work travel works—for businesses, for travelers, and for the industry. Apply now and let’s make travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable—together.
