Staff Cloud Infra Engineer (AWS, Terraform)

Gusto; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs equity

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team to build automation and foundational systems that power our products. This code‑driven role suits a DevOps/SRE mindset with autonomy over architecture, IaC patterns, and reliability standards.

You’ll migrate production apps into a modern AWS multi‑account setup and strengthen disaster recovery and compliance. You’ll work with Terraform/OpenTofu, Spacelift, and related tools, collaborating with networking, compute, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.
• Deep, production-level AWS expertise across compute, networking, identity, and security primitives.
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu strongly preferred; Crossplane, CloudFormation, or similar) including module design, state management, and scalable patterns for large teams.
• Experience with multi-account AWS governance — AWS Organizations, OU design, SCPs/RCPs, and federated identity via IAM Identity Center or equivalent SSO.
• Hands-on experience with a managed IaC orchestration platform (Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, etc.).
• Experience operating production infrastructure for a customer-facing SaaS platform, including observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) and participating in incident response.
• Track record of driving multi-quarter infrastructure initiatives to completion with minimal direction.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, with changes managed through code rather than manual configuration.
• Improve the speed, reliability, and usability of Spacelift workflows used by engineering teams across Gusto.
• Partner with application and infrastructure teams to migrate production services into a modern AWS multi-account architecture.
• Strengthen disaster recovery and compliance readiness by implementing and testing infrastructure resilience.
• Refactor infrastructure code into modular, reusable components that simplify maintenance and future development.
• Support engineering teams with cloud infrastructure needs, troubleshooting, and vendor integrations.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate infrastructure development, improve troubleshooting, and identify automation opportunities while maintaining a high bar for security, correctness, and reliability.
• Participate in an on-call rotation focused on internal engineering support, turning recurring issues into automation and lasting improvements.

Skills

DevOps mindset

SRE experience

Cloud infrastructure

Automation

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Spacelift

Terraform Cloud

AWS

Job description

Gusto is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure team to build automation and foundational systems that power our products. This code‑driven role suits a DevOps/SRE mindset with autonomy over architecture, IaC patterns, and reliability standards.

You’ll migrate production apps into a modern AWS multi‑account setup and strengthen disaster recovery and compliance. You’ll work with Terraform/OpenTofu, Spacelift, and related tools, collaborating with networking, compute, and