Sr Staff Database Engineer

The Hartford; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Sr. Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and secure enterprise infrastructure across hybrid environments. You will drive resiliency, observability, and scalable platforms while guiding automation and AI-enabled capabilities.

You will collaborate across Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture teams, define engineering standards, and own delivery of enterprise-critical outcomes. A strong background in cloud, on-prem, and AI-driven tooling is essential.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of applicable software engineering experience.
• Expert proficiency in Java, C#/.NET, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong full-stack experience (front-end frameworks, APIs, back-end services).
• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, and AIOps.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, and distributed systems.
• Secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and data protection.
• Experience with agentic AI architectures, LLM prompting, and human–AI interaction.
• Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools.
• Awareness of AI-driven security risks and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Owns the technical direction, design integrity, and operational outcomes for highly complex infrastructure across multiple platforms and domains, as a senior individual contributor.
• Leads cross-functional virtual squads or technical workstreams across Infrastructure, Security, and Architecture to deliver enterprise-critical outcomes.
• Serves as a subject matter expert across infrastructure domains, shaping platform direction, engineering standards, and reusable patterns.
• Defines, designs, and advances scalable infrastructure platforms, shared services, automation frameworks, observability, resiliency, and operational controls across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments.
• Owns design choices for AI-enabled, AIOps, or agentic infrastructure capabilities when跨-domain trade-offs are required.
• Modernizes infrastructure services, automation, configurations, runbooks, deployment patterns, and operational workflows to improve scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Establishes reusable playbooks, automation patterns, validation practices, and documentation standards for consistent and safe execution.

Skills

Software engineering

Programming languages

Full-stack

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Secure coding

AI architectures

AI tooling

AI security

Job description

## Sr Staff Database EngineerApply: Hybrid: Hartford, CT: Charlotte, NC: Columbus OH-Worth Ave: Chicago, IL: Full time: Posted Today: R2627226Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer - IEB07BEWe’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future. **Job Summary** The Sr Staff Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for design ing, building, securing, and modernizing the technology environments that support reliable, scalable, and efficient enterprise operations. They apply expertise across cloud, hybrid, and on -preminfrastructure, automation, infrastructure as code, resiliency, observability, and operational excelle nce to improve platform performance, reduce risk, and enable faster, more consistent delivery. They partner across engineerin g, security,architecture, operations, and business teams to ensure infrastructure services are stable, cost -aware, compliant, and aligned to evolving business and technology needs.**Span and Responsibility** •Owns the technical direction, design integrity,and operational outcomes for highly complexinfrastructure capabilities that span multipleplatforms, services, teams, or technologydomains, while operating as a senior individualcontributor with no direct reports. •Leads cross -functional virtual squads ortechnical workstreams across Infrastructure,Security, and Architecture, to deliverenterprise -critical outcomes.•Serves as a recognized subject matter expertacross one or more infrastructure domains,shaping platform direction, engineeringstandards, reusable patterns, and operatingpractices beyond a single team. •Defines, designs, and advances scalableinfrastructure platforms, shared services,automation frameworks, observability,resiliency patterns, integrations, andoperational controls across hybridon-premises and cloud environments. •Owns design choices for AI -enabled , AIOps, oragentic infrastructure capabilities whenrequirements are broad, standards areevolving, or cross -domain trade -offs arerequired. •Modernizes infrastructure services,automation, configurations, runbooks,deployment patterns, and operationalworkflows to improve scalability, resiliency,security, performance, cost efficiency, andlong -term supportability. •Establishes reusable playbooks, automationpatterns, validation practices, anddocumentation standards that enable otherengineers and teams to execute consistentlyand safely. **Technical Qualifications** •8–10 years of applicable software engineeringexperience.•Expert proficiency in one or more modernprogramming languages (Java, C#/.NET,Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).•Strong full -stack expertise (front endframeworks, APIs, back -end services).•Deep experience with automated testing,CI/CD, and AIOps practices.•Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS,Azure, GCP), containers, and distributedsystems.•Advanced understanding of secure coding,vulnerability remediation, and dataprotection.•Proven experience with agentic AIarchitectures, LLM prompting, and human -AIinteraction design.•Hands -on use of AI-assisted developmenttools to improve engineering productivity.•Strong awareness of AI -driven security risksand responsible AI practices. This role will have a Hybrid work schedule, with the expectation of working in an office (Columbus, OH, Chicago, IL, Hartford, CT or Charlotte, NC) 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday). Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without company sponsorship. The company will not support the STEM OPT I-983 Training Plan endorsement for this position.**Compensation**The listed annualized base pay range is primarily based on analysis of similar positions in the external market. Actual base pay could vary and may be above or below the listed range based on factors including but not limited to performance, proficiency and demonstration of competencies required for the role. The base pay is just one component of The Hartford’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term or annual bonuses, long-term incentives, and on-the-spot recognition. The annualized base pay range for this role is:$137,200 - $205,800