Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Remote, AWS & Terraform

Splitwise; Providence (RI); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Dental and Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

401k with match

Flexible hours

Professional development budget

Annual retreats

Remote-friendly with Providence HQ

Job summary

Splitwise is a US-based, remote-friendly company with a small HQ in Providence, RI. You will work with engineering leadership and the backend team to architect and launch pragmatic, cost-conscious systems while mentoring other engineers and shaping the roadmap.

We value hands-on architects who can guide capacity planning, security, and reliability tradeoffs as we scale. In‑person gatherings occur 2–3 times per year, with flexible remote options and strong equity/benefits.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience as an infrastructure engineer, platform engineer, or SRE in cloud-native environments on AWS.
• Wrote code that allows developers to manage AWS resources.
• Strong Terraform skills.
• Proficient in Ruby, Python, or similar language.
• Experience operating relational databases at scale.
• Ability to assess security and reliability tradeoffs.
• 4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related degree, or equivalent experience.
• Desirable: Ruby on Rails monoliths, deep relational database experience.

Responsibilities

• Make architectural decisions that support rapid feature development while keeping costs proportional to growth.
• Define and own SLOs/SLIs for core services.
• Plan capacity by making data-driven recommendations on when to scale or re-architect.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform across our AWS footprint and Cloudflare.
• Improve the developer experience by developing in-house tooling, written in Rust.
• Own CI/CD and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve dependency and vulnerability management.
• Help engineers adopt healthy observability patterns.
• Evaluate and choose vendors and services for infrastructure needs.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Ruby

Python

CI/CD

SRE

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Cloudflare

Job description

Splitwise is a US-based, remote-friendly company with a small HQ in Providence, RI. You will work with engineering leadership and the backend team to architect and launch pragmatic, cost-conscious systems while mentoring other engineers and shaping the roadmap.

We value hands-on architects who can guide capacity planning, security, and reliability tradeoffs as we scale. In‑person gatherings occur 2–3 times per year, with flexible remote options and strong equity/benefits.