Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure Engineer)

Textio; New York (NY); Remote; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that champions remote work and values growth! As a Senior Software Engineer focusing on Infrastructure, you'll be at the forefront of designing and scaling systems to meet the demands of a rapidly growing user base. This role offers the chance to tackle complex technical challenges while fostering a collaborative environment. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the company provides outstanding benefits, including flexible schedules and unlimited time off. If you're passionate about infrastructure and ready to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Flexible schedules

Unlimited time off

Outstanding health care, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time to volunteer

On-demand mentoring with Bravely

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SRE and DevOps supporting SaaS products.
• Proficiency with AWS, Linux, Docker, and resilient cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Designing, optimizing, and scaling systems for massive growth.
• Employing automation to streamline operations and prevent disruptions.
• Advancing CI/CD pipelines and promoting a DevOps culture.

Skills

SRE and DevOps

AWS services

Linux administration

Docker

Terraform

Python

Go

GitOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Security (Key Management, Encryption)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Practical experience in modern computing concepts

Tools

CircleCI

CDK

Job description

We support 100% remote work for applicants who reside in the following states: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington.

Employees want growth. Managers want it to be easier. HR wants better control over the process. Textio helps companies with an integrated suite of recruiting and feedback tools that help attract the best talent possible and develop top performers’ skills with actionable feedback. An organization that is succeeding (and not failing) at feedback see careers skyrocket and bottom-line revenues soar.

At Textio, we're entering an exciting new phase: exponential usage of our newest product that some of the worlds largest companies are adopting across their entire organization. As our Senior Software Engineer owning Infrastructure, you'll lead the charge in designing, optimizing, and scaling our systems to meet this challenge. You won't just keep things running—you'll lay the foundation for the next generation of our platform, ensuring it's efficient, secure, and right sized for the demands of hundreds of thousands of users.

If you're energized by the idea of scaling infrastructure for massive growth, solving complex technical problems, and being the go-to person for infrastructure vision and execution, we'd love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing:

• Employing automation to streamline operations and to proactively prevent and repair service disruptions.
• Collaborating with other teams to align infrastructure with product, operational, and compliance objectives.
• Staying informed about industry trends and technologies, and introducing new solutions for ongoing improvement.
• Identifying, building, and guiding major initiatives from conception to launch.
• Advancing CI/CD pipelines and championing a DevOps culture, with a focus on practices like Infrastructure as Code (IaC), proactive monitoring, and effective alerting.
• Ensuring operational environments effectively serve engineering teams and strategically contain cloud expenditures.
• Defining and delivering critical infrastructure support and meticulously documenting designs and procedures to promote collective progress.
• Participating in an on-call rotation that prioritizes a healthy work-life balance.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A solid foundation in modern computing concepts, built through education or practical experience.
• Extensive experience in SRE and DevOps (particularly supporting SaaS products), including proficiency with AWS services, Linux administration, Docker, and with building resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise writing maintainable scripts with Terraform, CDK, and shell scripts, and with languages like Python, Go, etc.
• Versatile communication skills for diverse audiences and a collaborative, team-oriented approach.
• Experience establishing GitOps practices and configuring CI/CD pipelines, particularly with CircleCI.
• Model strong customer focus, communication skills, and empathy, bringing leadership experience to support business initiatives and goals.
• Have a low ego but a strong point of view.
• Prior security experience (Key Management, Encryption, etc.).

Nice to have:

Experience leading a similar team at a SaaS startup, familiarity with Azure, and advanced coding skills.

We are looking to build a truly diverse, equitable, and inclusive engineering team. We have a number of outstanding benefits to support that.

• We offer flexible schedules and unlimited time off. Take vacations to recharge and work the schedule that makes sense for you. We’re about long-term growth and success, so that means working sustainably.
• We provide outstanding health care, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
• Paid time to volunteer at non-profits. If you volunteer enough, we’ll match your hours with donations.
• On demand mentoring with Bravely.

The base salary for this role is $160,000 - $180,000. We will share more information on benefits and equity upon request. Disclosure according to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq.

Textio embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Textio will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require any accommodation, please contact our recruiting team at [e-mail].

Working at Textio is outstanding. Learn more about our philosophy, benefits, and team at https://textio.com/careers/.