Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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. Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts, including recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling .

Posted 9/21/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesLead💰 $250,000 - $367,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building scalable infrastructure and improving system observability, with a strong focus on performance-critical applications and mentoring engineering teams in best practices.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Infrastructure ResiliencyScalable Infrastructure DevelopmentObservability and Operability ImprovementMentoring EngineersPerformance Issue Debugging

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLKafkaSpark StreamingReactTailwind CSSAWS

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationProblem-Solving

Industry Keywords

Real-Time Event ProcessingLoad Spike HandlingTenant IsolationRecovery MechanismsScaling Initiatives

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSKafkaPostgresPythonReactSparkTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead infrastructure resiliency efforts, including recovery mechanisms, tenant isolation, and load spike handling
Improve observability and operability of systems
Build performance-critical, user-facing infrastructure such as real-time event processing
Plan scaling initiatives to handle large customer growth
Partner with other engineering teams to build reliable product features
Learn from peers and share expertise

Requirements

What you’ll need

9+ years of experience in software engineering
2+ years of experience in the infrastructure domain
Deep consideration of edge cases, failure modes, and bottlenecks
Ability to investigate and debug tricky errors and performance issues
Experience building scalable infrastructure for a high-growth product
Ability to mentor fellow engineers on observability, rollout strategies, and risk mitigation
Experience with or ability to learn infrastructure technologies including TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, Python, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Spark Streaming, and AWS

Benefits

Comp & perks

Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
One Medical membership
Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off between Christmas and New Year’s
401k plan
16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
Commuter stipend
Catered lunches in the office
Annual learning & development stipend
Meaningful equity in the form of stock options