Senior Infrastructure Engineer Fingerprint · Remote · Worldwide · Platform & Infrastructure In listing 4w ago

Devopsroles; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingerprint is a globally distributed, 100% remote company based in the United States, seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to drive design, development, and evolution of scalable cloud infrastructure. You will own critical subsystems end-to-end, from design to production operation, focusing on reliability, security, and cost-efficiency.

You will work across cloud architecture, deployment systems, observability, performance tuning, and developer tooling, collaborating with product

Qualifications

• Six to ten years of experience in cloud-focused infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering (AWS preferred).
• Ownership of a product or subsystem from design to production operation.
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience and cloud networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own a core infrastructure product or subsystem end to end — design, ship, operate, and own its production behavior.
• Define goals and success metrics aligned with company objectives; surface risks early.
• Create technical designs from PRDs, iterating to cover critical corner cases without over-engineering.
• Build secure, high-performing, resilient, cost-efficient infrastructure for diverse workloads.
• Design and ship software and developer tooling that reduce toil for engineers.
• Manage infrastructure through code and configuration (Terraform).
• Partner with product teams to architect services for scale and clarity on requirements.
• Participate in incident response and use systematic debugging to diagnose issues.
• Tune monitoring and use data to propose stability and performance improvements.
• Maintain security during development and peer reviews; mentor through code review and pairing.
• Drive cross-team collaboration and engage stakeholders outside of engineering.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Terraform experience

Go

Python

Redis/ElastiCache

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Job description

devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

• Take a core infrastructure system from design through launch and production operations, staying accountable for how it performs
• Turn requirements into technical plans, set success measures, and surface risks early while keeping designs practical
• Build secure, reliable, cost-aware infrastructure and create software or developer tools that cut engineering toil
• Help product teams prepare services to scale, respond to incidents, and use monitoring data to improve stability and speed
• Review work through a security lens and guide other engineers with design input, pairing, and code reviews

What you bring

• Six to ten years in cloud-focused infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering
• A history of taking a substantial product or subsystem from design to production operation
• Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience, plus strong grounding in cloud networking, load balancing, containers, and distributed systems
• Production Redis or ElastiCache operations experience, including sharding, failover, memory policies, and scaling
• Production software skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language

Who this fits

This senior individual contributor role suits an autonomous engineer who can work through unclear requirements and lead technical decisions across teams. It is fully remote, with work-from-home authorization required; the company does not sponsor visas and excludes some countries.

From the employer

Fingerprint empowers enterprises to detect and stop online fraud with the world’s most accurate device intelligence. We lead our industry with bleeding-edge identification capabilities and work on turning new ideas and discoveries in the fraud detection space into reality. Our customers range from innovative startups to leading enterprise companies, including Plaid, Dropbox, and Booking.com.

Fingerprint is a globally dispersed, 100% remote company. We were named on on the 2026 Forbes Best Startup Employers list and ranked #803 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.

Are you a systems-minded engineer with deep cloud infrastructure expertise and a passion for building the platforms that power products at scale? Do you enjoy solving hard distributed-systems problems, driving reliability, and partnering closely with engineering teams to architect for growth? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to drive the design, development, and evolution of the systems that keep Fingerprint running fast, securely, and at scale. This is a foundational role on our Infrastructure team, with broad ownership over the systems, tools, and practices that power our engineering organization and customer-facing products.

You’ll work across cloud architecture, deployment systems, observability, performance tuning, and developer tooling—helping to define and deliver our platform's reliability and scalability strategy. As a technical leader, you'll also collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and DevOps to ensure our infrastructure is ready for the next phase of growth.

Responsibilities:

• Own a core infrastructure product or subsystem end to end — you design it, ship it, operate it, and are accountable for how it behaves in production.
• Define project goals and success metrics for your work, aligning them with company objectives, and proactively identify and address risks before they become blockers.
• Create technical designs from PRDs and requirements, taking an iterative approach that addresses critical corner cases without over-engineering.
• Build secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure for a broad range of applications and workloads.
• Design, write, and ship software and developer-facing tooling that improves the day-to-day lives of our engineers and reduces toil.
• Manage infrastructure through code and configuration (we primarily use Terraform), consistently applying patterns that align with our overall service architecture.
• Partner with product engineering teams to architect their services for scale, resolving ambiguous requirements directly with stakeholders.
• Participate in incident response and use systematic debugging to diagnose issues within your domain and across services.
• Help tune and evolve monitoring for the team, and use operational data as the basis for proposing stability and performance improvements.
• Approach all engineering work with a security lens — actively looking for vulnerabilities in your own work and in peer reviews.
• Act as the go-to person for hard problems in your area, and mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback so knowledge doesn't silo.
• Drive cross-team collaboration and engage stakeholders outside of engineering, facilitating discussions on technical and process topics.

Qualifications:

• 6–10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering within primarily cloud-based environments (AWS preferred).
• A track record of owning a product or subsystem end to end — you’ve designed something significant, shipped it, operated it, and lived with the consequences.
• T-shaped expertise: deep specialization in one or two areas, with enough breadth to navigate and contribute across the wider system with minimal guidance.
• Strong hands-on experience managing infrastructure through code and configuration (Terraform or equivalent).
• Depth in cloud infrastructure fundamentals: networking, load balancing, containerization (EKS/Kubernetes), and distributed systems.
• Solid programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language — you write real, production-ready software.
• Hands-on experience operating Redis/ElastiCache in production — including cluster/shard management, failover behavior, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies. This is a current skill gap on our team, so depth here is a strong differentiator.
• Comfort with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar), performance tuning, and incident management.
• Fluency with software engineering best practices: source control, code review, comprehensive test coverage across edge cases and errors, and safe deployment.
• A high level of personal ownership and autonomy, with real experience working without clearly defined requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English — clear technical design docs, PR reviews, and updates that bring engineers outside your team along on a decision.

Compensation & Transparency

For US-based employees, the cash compensation range for this role is $152,000 – $205,000. We set standard ranges for all US roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. However, these ranges are specific to the hiring location and may differ within or outside the US. Offers vary depending on, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, certifications/licenses, skills, training, and market conditions.

Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.

If you are applying as a resident of California, please read our CCPA notice here .

If you are applying as a resident of the EU, please read our GDPR notice here.

Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.

If you are applying as a resident of California, please read our CCAA notice here .

If you are applying as a resident of the EU, please read our GDPR notice here.