Infrastructure Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch; New York (NY); Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a software engineer to enhance their development ecosystem. You'll focus on improving developer productivity, managing CI systems, and maintaining infrastructure for AWS deployments. Join a remote team dedicated to simplifying workflows and fostering innovation in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Equity

Living proximity bonus of $18,000

Meals at the office

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited vacation

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Significant experience with TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Make local development delightful by creating seamless setup processes.
• Evolve our CI systems, making checks exhaustive, fast, and flake-free.
• Maintain and improve our infrastructure-as-code for AWS deployments.

Skills

TypeScript

Developer Productivity

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS

Postgres

Job description

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/

Overview

We are looking for a software engineer to own our development ecosystem. You'll be responsible for making our engineering team outrageously productive by eliminating friction throughout the development lifecycle. You'll tackle devx issues across our diverse technical landscape — including our two monorepos, four backends (each written in a different language), and NextJS app that powers our customers’ docs. If you're passionate about developer productivity, enjoy diving into complex systems, and have a knack for simplifying complicated workflows, we want you on our team.

Sound like you?Get in touch.

What you’ll do

• Your mission is tomake your teammates outrageously productive.

• Make local development delightfulby creating seamless setup processes, fast build systems, and well-configured tooling that lets our engineers (and open-source contributors) focus on writing code instead of fighting their environment

• Evolve our CI systems,making our CI checks exhaustive, fast, and flake-free

• Maintain and improve our infrastructure-as-code(CDK) for our AWS deployments and our CD pipelines

• Design and implementmonitoring, observability, and alertingacross our stack.

What you’ll bring

• 3+ years of professional software development

• Significant experience with TypeScript

• A passion for building for other developers

• An ability to prioritize and own decisions across our development ecosystem. We have ideas of what you’ll work on, but ultimately, you will decide what you do and how.

What we offer

• First-hand experience building an early-stage startup

• A salary of $170,000 to $230,000 and equity

• Living proximity bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office

• Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) at the office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Unlimited vacation

Our tech stack

• GitHub Actions (CI/CD)

• Next.js + Vercel (Frontend)

• Claude + Bedrock (LLM)

• Our API

• Microservices: Express (Node.js), FastAPI (Python)

• Algolia + turbopuffer (Search)

• Postgres DB + Prisma ORM (Database)

• AWS + CDK, Cloudflare (Cloud)

• pnpm, turbo (Build tooling)

About the interview

1. Phone Screen with a founder

2. Technical Interview: Coding

3. Technical Interview: Decomp (System Design)

4. Work Trial (in office)

5. Offer!

https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/