Senior Infra Engineer - Scalable Rails Backend

Aura; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous stock option program

Comprehensive health plans

401(k) with match

Lunch and snacks in SF & NY

$150 monthly fitness allowance

Flexible time off

Job summary

Aura is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their NYC and SF teams. This role focuses on designing and operating backend systems for a Rails API, ensuring scalability and high performance. Candidates should have extensive experience scaling applications and infrastructure, ideally in startup environments.

Benefits include a generous stock option program and comprehensive health plans. Compensation ranges from $180,000 to $245,000 annually.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Strong coding skills in relevant programming languages.
• Hands-on experience with reliability engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scaling strategies in PostgreSQL backed Rails API.
• Lead initiatives for system reliability improvements.
• Manage application and database costs.

Skills

Scaling consumer applications and infrastructure

Low-latency async distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Coding skills in Ruby, Python, or similar

Reliability engineering practices

Job description

Aura is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their NYC and SF teams. This role focuses on designing and operating backend systems for a Rails API, ensuring scalability and high performance. Candidates should have extensive experience scaling applications and infrastructure, ideally in startup environments.

Benefits include a generous stock option program and comprehensive health plans. Compensation ranges from $180,000 to $245,000 annually.