Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)

Job summary

The Staff Infrastructure Engineer shares hands-on responsibility for production operations while setting technical direction for a resilient, automated AWS platform used by product teams. The role focuses on Terraform infrastructure and delivery patterns, operational automation, PostgreSQL and DynamoDB reliability, tested backups, and interruption-free upgrades. It also includes modeling AWS costs, load testing, and capacity planning for product growth.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating production AWS systems across compute, data, and networking, including ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB.
• Experience delivering downtime-free upgrades and testing database restores.
• Experience designing and maintaining a large Terraform codebase, including modules, state layout, and CI/CD for plan and apply.
• Track record of replacing manual operations with automation adopted by other engineers.
• Staff-level or equivalent experience shaping infrastructure direction, writing designs, and enabling other engineers.
• Calm, methodical incident response and effective communication in a remote, asynchronous team.

Responsibilities

• Participate in infrastructure requests, upgrades, daily checks, incidents, and on-call duties.
• Set AWS infrastructure standards and technical direction with the Infrastructure team.
• Design Terraform modules and patterns for secure, reliable use by product teams.
• Manage infrastructure as code across AWS and Cloudflare and automate drift detection.
• Improve Terraform state, environments, module boundaries, and safe change delivery.
• Automate database migrations, production tasks, and daily checks through auditable pipelines.
• Operate PostgreSQL and DynamoDB platforms and regularly verify backups through restores.
• Deliver AWS, database, and runtime upgrades without service interruption.
• Model AWS costs, establish load testing, and plan capacity for launches.

Skills

Work schedule

Travel

Industry

Relocation