Sr. Infrastructure Engineer

VGS; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VGS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and scale global cloud infrastructure for mission-critical payments applications with zero downtime, ownership from day one, and a focus on reliability.

You will drive resiliency through automation, implement GitOps-driven CI/CD, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Security and Core Engineering to accelerate developer workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in large-scale distributed systems in mission-critical environments.
• Proficient in AWS and Terraform for reproducible environments.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Bash for infra automation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, APIs, load balancing, and network isolation.

Responsibilities

• Build immutable, self-healing AWS infrastructure and code-managed platforms.
• Reduce toil with automated infrastructure solutions via GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure telemetry tooling and participate in blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering to streamline developer workflows.
• Maintain high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external traffic.

Skills

Ownership at scale

AWS & IaC

Kubernetes & Docker

Automation scripting

Observability tooling

Security fundamentals

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Terraform

Flux

Argo

GitHub Actions

Job description

About VGS

VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust.

That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce. We store more than 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce. That scale isn't incidental. It's why leading companies embed our universal token vault and credential management platform directly into their stack, taming the complexity of payment data so they can move faster.

Come build the platform that enables modern payments for the world's largest companies. We're helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving. And that takes exceptional people.

Trusted Engineering That Matters

Engineering at VGS

VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. VGS Engineering is the pillar that supports that vision. We create a platform that is an indispensable, ubiquitous component of our partners' payments and security infrastructure. We build and operate high-scale, reliable, and resilient systems that manage mission-critical payment data across the globe. We don't just participate in the payments ecosystem; we power it.

Our Environment & Culture

• Modern Tooling as Leverage: We value speed and impact. To ensure nothing slows you down, we arm you with a highly consistent modern stack (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Java, TypeScript, Python) and world-class AI-augmented SDLC tooling. We strip away the friction so you can focus on the problems that demand creativity and judgment.

• Ownership of Outcomes: Scaling global payments infrastructure requires individuals who take personal ownership of outcomes from day one. We look for builders who combine high agency with deep strategic alignment; channeling their urgency and relentless iteration into what matters most.

• Mission-Critical Accountability: We power payments infrastructure for global market leaders, making system trust and integrity our core deliverable. We don't treat compliance (PCI, SOC2, ISO27001), security patching, and platform maintenance as administrative overhead—we engineer them with first-class product discipline. In payments infrastructure, reliability is not background work, it’s part of what customers buy.

Learn More: See how our engineering practices drive trust and innovation in our official blog and our reliability practices.

About the Role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be a key contributor and technical practitioner on our Platform Engineering team. You will help build, scale, and fortify global cloud infrastructure designed to handle mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications with zero downtime. You will own core platform components powering our payment systems. Working collaboratively within your team, you will execute infrastructure projects, uphold reliability standards, and help maintain our multi-region AWS environment. We are looking for hands-on engineers who take pride in solving complex distributed system challenges and continuously improving operational efficiency. If you thrive on solving technical infrastructure problems, building automated resiliency, and applying modern SRE practices, we want to build the future with you.

• Build Immutable, Self-Healing Systems: Build, maintain, and optimize high-availability AWS infrastructure. You will contribute directly to our evolution toward a standardized, globally scalable fleet managed entirely through code.

• Drive Resiliency & Automation: Reduce manual toil by implementing automated infrastructure solutions using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.

• Deep Observability & Resiliency: Configure and maintain telemetry tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to monitor performance and spot bottlenecks. You will participate in incident response on-call rotations and lead blameless post-mortems.

• Enable Engineering Velocity: Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams to support adoption of "Golden Paths" that streamline developer workflows. You will mentor junior and mid-level engineers and foster strong technical practices.

• Customer Impact: Maintain and support high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external customer traffic. Partner with internal engineering teams to support platform adoption.

What You Bring

• Ownership at Scale: 5+ years of experience contributing to complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments.

• AWS & Infrastructure-as-Code: Solid hands-on proficiency in AWS ecosystems and Terraform for building reproducible environments.

• Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions).

• Automation & Scripting: Proficient coding/scripting skills in Python, Go, or Bash for infrastructure automation and operational tooling.

• Observability Expertise: Hands-on experience working with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.

• Security & Networking Foundations: Good understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation principles.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
• BA/BS degree
• A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience with distributed data streaming platforms like Kafka (MSK).
• Database performance tuning or query troubleshooting skills.
• Familiarity with Java / Spring Framework services.

We're looking for passionate professionals who take pride in their craft and want to help grow a team tackling some of the most critical problems in payments. People who thrive here are curious by nature, unafraid of hard problems, and motivated by the chance to build something that matters at scale.

If you're driven to make a meaningful impact, work at the leading edge of payment technology, and grow your career alongside a team that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning, you'll feel right at home at VGS.

$70,000 - $90,000 a year

What We Look For In Every Teammate

We're looking for passionate professionals who take pride in their craft and want to help grow a team tackling some of the most critical problems in payments. People who thrive here are curious by nature, unafraid of hard problems, and motivated by the chance to build something that matters at scale.

If you're driven to make a meaningful impact, work at the leading edge of payment technology, and grow your career alongside a team that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning, you'll feel right at home at VGS.

Equal Opportunity

We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or other protected classes under all applicable local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).

Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for this position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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