Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Engine, you will be a strategic leader responsible for defining the long-term vision and shaping the architectural strategy of the infrastructure platform that powers our entire engineering organization. This role moves beyond team-level ownership to solve the most complex, high-stakes problems that unlock major organizational leverage and drive strategic business outcomes.

Your mission is to architect and own critical outcomes end-to-end, thinking in systems and connecting multi-functional dots to ensure the platform is not only reliable but also a powerful accelerant for product development across the company. You will drive change across multiple stakeholders, serving as the domain expert for infrastructure architecture and guiding the technical direction of multiple engineering teams.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role where you will contribute directly to platform capabilities, write clean and scalable code, and apply broad expertise to advance company goals by influencing how infrastructure is delivered across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Platform Strategy & Architecture: Define and drive the multi-year roadmap for the cloud infrastructure platform, making high-stakes, strategic decisions around performance, cost, and maintainability. Serve as the ultimate domain expert for critical systems.
• System-Level Automation: Architect and lead the implementation of our strategic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform, ensuring the solution provides organizational leverage and adheres to a robust, scalable governance model.
• CI/CD Ecosystem Evolution: Own and drive the evolution of the organization's deployment ecosystem, setting the standard for secure, reliable, and high-velocity enterprise-wide deployment strategy.
• Organizational Reliability & Observability: Define the company's observability strategy (SLOs/SLIs) and lead major, cross-functional incident response efforts. Leverage deep system-level thinking to diagnose root causes and prevent recurrence of high-impact outages.
• Self-Service Platform Ownership: Architect and own the core platform capabilities and system-level contracts that unlock significant self-service capabilities for all product engineering teams, maximizing autonomy while enforcing guardrails.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Set the technical standards and best practices for infrastructure engineering across the organization. Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring to Senior and Principal engineers, influencing the technical direction of peer teams.
• Security & Governance Leadership: Partner with Security and Compliance leadership to integrate advanced security controls and policy enforcement mechanisms at the architectural layer, ensuring compliance without sacrificing developer velocity.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of high-impact experience in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure roles, with a 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, used to engineer internal infrastructure platforms and APIs.
• 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 and translating abstract concepts into clear, actionable engineering plans.
• Expert-level knowledge of IaC (Terraform strongly preferred) and 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.

Applications for this role will be accepted through April 15th, 2026 or until the role is filled. We encourage you to apply early, as we may begin reviewing applications before the deadline.