Senior Infra Engineer — Scale, Reliability & Cost Savings

Aura Home, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option program

Comprehensive health plans

401(k) with match

Lunch and snacks

$150 monthly fitness allowance

Flexible time off

Job summary

Aura Home, Inc. is looking for a seasoned backend engineer to join their infrastructure team in New York City. This role involves designing and operating backend systems for their Rails API, ensuring they can scale reliably while managing performance and security.

The ideal candidate will have over a decade of experience, ideally in startup environments, specializing in high-scale consumer applications. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $160,000 to $220,000 and a great benefits package including stock options and flexible time off.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure engineering.
• Experience in startups with fewer than 100 employees.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement sharding in PostgreSQL backed Rails API.
• Lead initiatives to improve system reliability.
• Reduce application and database costs.

Skills

Scaling consumer applications

Low-latency async distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Coding in Ruby, Python

Reliability engineering practices

Job description

Aura Home, Inc. is looking for a seasoned backend engineer to join their infrastructure team in New York City. This role involves designing and operating backend systems for their Rails API, ensuring they can scale reliably while managing performance and security.

The ideal candidate will have over a decade of experience, ideally in startup environments, specializing in high-scale consumer applications. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from $160,000 to $220,000 and a great benefits package including stock options and flexible time off.