Hybrid Infra Engineer - Payments Platform & Impact

Forage; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Hybrid in SF (2-3 days in office)

Team lunches

Job summary

Forage is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco to own the core services, CI/CD, and incident response. You will optimize compute and data storage for payments processing and the consumer API stack while collaborating with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

The role emphasizes production-ready monitoring, autoscaling, and security with a remote-first communication approach. Hybrid work 2–3 days in the office, plus North America remote consideration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on infrastructure/DevOps/SRE work.
• Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Practice preparing systems for production use — come with experience implementing monitoring, autoscaling, and security concerns in live services.
• Proven track record of owning complex systems — e.g. containerized deployments using cloud databases.
• Strong, remote-first, communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Nice to have: prior experience in fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own Critical Services: Be responsible for critical services that power our applications, such as the compute and data storage layers powering Forage's payments processing and consumer app API systems.
• Manage CI/CD: Help manage, improve and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, focusing on speed and reliability.
• Improve Incident Response: Help our team reduce noisy alerting by tuning monitor sensitivity and expanding the self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities of our systems. Plan and organize activities to test and evolve how we respond to outages.
• Enhance Developer Experience: Build for both engineers and non-engineers, expanding who can, and wants to, contribute code changes with the adoption of AI agent-led development.

Skills

Communication

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Job description

Forage is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco to own the core services, CI/CD, and incident response. You will optimize compute and data storage for payments processing and the consumer API stack while collaborating with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

The role emphasizes production-ready monitoring, autoscaling, and security with a remote-first communication approach. Hybrid work 2–3 days in the office, plus North America remote consideration.