Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure – Fintech Platform

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group in San Francisco is seeking a Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure to join the platform engineering team. You will own pieces of the roadmap end to end and help engineers deploy safely with a shared platform.

The role focuses on AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and Linux/container fundamentals, with strong TypeScript and Python usage. This is an in-person, on-site role in San Francisco, requiring work authorization in the United States.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software engineering with infrastructure or platform focus.
• Proficient with AWS, IaC, CI/CD, and Linux container fundamentals.
• Strong TypeScript coding, Python where appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Own parts of the roadmap end-to-end for platform features.
• Develop gated deploys, migrations, and staging-to-production promotions.
• Build fast local/remote dev environments and observability tooling.

Skills

AWS

IaC

CI/CD

Linux

Containers

TypeScript

Python

DevTools

Tools

Spacelift

Atlantis

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Job description

San Francisco, CA | On-site | Full-time

MaxIT Consulting is looking for a Software Engineer, Developer Infrastructure to join the platform engineering team of a fast-growing, venture-backed financial data and accounting automation platform.

The Opportunity

Platform engineering here is engineering for engineering: make every engineer, and the AI agents working alongside them, dramatically more productive through a shared platform, so anyone can go from idea to a safely deployed change without bespoke setup. You will own pieces of the roadmap end to end and watch engineers use them.

What You Might Work On

• Deployment: gated deploys, automated schema migrations with rollback, trusted staging-to-production promotion.
• Environments and parity: fast local and remote dev environments, preview and review environments.
• Agent-first development: MCP gateways, governance, cost management and model selection.
• Infrastructure as code: OpenTofu/Terraform, drift remediation and cloud consolidation on AWS.
• Observability, security and access: tracing, logging, metrics, secrets management, SSO and IAM scoping.
• Internal tools hosting and developer portal.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, including significant infrastructure, platform or developer-productivity work.
• Confidence with AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD systems and Linux/container fundamentals.
• Strong general-purpose programming, primarily TypeScript, with Python where it fits.

Nice to Have

• Spacelift or Atlantis, Datadog, GitHub Actions or Buildkite.
• Incident management, SLAs and high-traffic reliability.

Work Arrangement

In-person role in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States.