Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Wintermeyer Ventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wintermeyer Ventures seeks an experienced infrastructure and reliability engineer to join as its first dedicated role in this space. You will build and scale the cloud foundation, strengthen security, and guide infra direction with engineering leadership and the platform team.

You will redesign AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform architectures to support rapid growth, own observability with SLOs, and write production-grade automation to reduce risk.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software/infrastructure engineering or SRE with a software background and track record of building systems.
• Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS; familiarity with Docker and Helm.
• Experience building and scaling infra from early stage and managing 1+ Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Experience at a high-growth Series A to C startup, ideally fintech or tech-driven product company.
• Knowledge of information security and observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLIs/SLOs).
• Hands-on software development in TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Build security infrastructure to support enterprise customers and compliance requirements.
• Redesign AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform architectures to support growth, including moving services away from ECS/Fargate.
• Own reliability and observability practices, including SLOs, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
• Write production-quality code and automation to reduce manual work and operational risk.
• Partner with engineering leadership and the platform team to set infra direction across engineering.

Skills

SRE mindset

Observability (SLIs/SLOs)

Automation & coding

Infra scaling in startups

Security awareness

Languages: TypeScript/Python/Rust/Java

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

Helm

Job description

About the Role

Join a fintech company as its first dedicated infrastructure and reliability engineer. You will build and scale the cloud foundation, strengthen security, and guide infrastructure direction alongside the engineering leadership and platform team.

What You'll Do

• Build security infrastructure to support enterprise customers and compliance requirements.
• Redesign AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform architecture to support significant growth, including moving services away from ECS and Fargate.
• Own reliability and observability practices, including SLOs, alerting, incident response, and postmortems.
• Write production-quality code and automation to reduce manual work and operational risk.
• Partner with engineering leadership and the platform team to set infrastructure direction across engineering.

What We're Looking For

• At least 8 years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, or SRE, with a software engineering background and a record of building systems rather than only maintaining them.
• Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS, plus familiarity with Docker and Helm.
• Experience building and scaling infrastructure from an early stage, and managing Kubernetes clusters at a scale ranging from a few to a couple hundred clusters.
• Experience at a high-growth Series A to C startup, ideally in fintech or another technology-driven product company.
• Working knowledge of information security and experience with observability, including metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, and SLIs or SLOs.
• Hands-on software development experience in a modern language such as TypeScript, Python, Rust, or Java.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $230,000 to $280,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in New York, New York, with an expectation of 4 to 5 days per week in the office.