Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) - £130k at Feeld

Feeld; USA; Remote; USD 139.000 - 172.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Unlimited paid time off

Fully remote working situation

Home office budget

On-demand therapy

Zusammenfassung

Feeld is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) to lead the evolution of our AWS footprint, Terraform modules, and Cloudflare edge setups. You’ll own architecture direction, automate operational work, and partner with product squads to build scalable, secure systems in a fully remote, async environment.

With deep production experience on AWS and in Terraform, you’ll shape strategic tech choices, mentor peers, and drive cost-aware, resilient infrastructure that supports Feeld’s mission to

Qualifikationen

• Deep hands-on AWS production experience across compute, data and networking.
• Designed and maintained a large Terraform codebase with CI/CD.
• Experience replacing manual ops with automation adopted by teams.
• Shaped infrastructure direction at Staff level or equivalent.

Aufgaben

• Share day-to-day Infra team work and participate in on-call when established.
• Define technical direction and own the AWS infrastructure roadmap with the team.
• Design Terraform modules that enable secure, reliable product squads.
• Keep infrastructure as code across Cloudflare and AWS; automate drift detection.
• Organise Terraform state, environments and module boundaries for scale.
• Automate tasks such as migrations and daily checks into pipelines.
• Own PostgreSQL and DynamoDB operations including tested backups.
• Upgrade AWS services with zero downtime and plan capacity ahead.
• Model cost and capacity planning to guide launches.

Kenntnisse

AWS architecture

Terraform

Database ops

Cloudflare

FinOps

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Cloudflare

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Jobbeschreibung

Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) - £130k at Feeld — Remote

Staff Engineer at a consumer tech scale-up is a rare opportunity to operate with both deep technical ownership and broad cross-team influence. Feeld's fully remote, async culture signals a mature engineering organisation that prioritises output over presence — a strong work-life balance indicator.

The £105,000–£130,000 GBP range is competitive for a Staff-level infrastructure role in the UK market, where equivalents at similar-stage startups typically sit between £110,000–£140,000. The transparent, equity-based compensation model and the "Baseline Freedom Salary" floor suggest a thoughtful, values-led approach to pay.

Skills you'll develop and deepen:

• Advanced AWS architecture (ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS Aurora, DynamoDB, multi-region)
• Large-scale Terraform codebase ownership and IaC best practices
• Database platform operations — a highly marketable, often under-specialised skill
• Cloudflare edge infrastructure (WAF, Workers, DNS at scale)
• Cost engineering and FinOps — increasingly valued at Staff+ levels

Green flags: "Culture add" hiring philosophy, explicit anti-burnout policy, transparent comp, and a roadmap role with real structural ownership. The on-call program is still being established, suggesting you'll help shape it rather than inherit a painful legacy rotation.

Potential consideration: As a Staff IC role at a relatively small team, you'll wear many hats. This suits engineers who enjoy breadth, but those seeking a large, specialised platform team may find the scope wide. Overall, this is a strong career move for a senior engineer ready to step into Staff-level platform leadership.

At Feeld, we are creating a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves. We are building an inclusive, human-centred product and are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) to become part of our remote team and our mission to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships.

You'll join our Infrastructure engineers as a hands-on peer, sharing the day-to-day work from your first weeks. Alongside that, you'll help set the direction for how Feeld runs on AWS: defined as code, automated end to end, resilient, and easy for product squads to build on. The aim is for routine work to get lighter for the whole team, so more of its time goes into making the platform better.

To be right for this role, you should have deep, hands‑on experience running production systems on AWS with Terraform, a track record of replacing manual operations with automation that others adopt, and the judgement to shape technical direction together with the team you join.

What you will do:

• Share the Infrastructure team's day-to-day work from your first weeks (requests, upgrades, daily checks and incidents), and join on-call once it's in place.
• Shape the technical direction and standards for our AWS infrastructure with the Infrastructure team, and own the roadmap together.
• Design and build Terraform modules and patterns that make the secure, reliable way the easy way for product squads.
• Keep our infrastructure fully in code as it grows, including our edge on Cloudflare and AWS, close the remaining gaps, and automate drift detection so the code stays the source of truth.
• Evolve how our Terraform is organised and applied (state, environments, module boundaries) as the estate grows, so changes stay small, reviewable and safe to roll out.
• Automate operational work, such as database migrations, routine production tasks and daily checks, into pipelines with review and audit trails.
• Own database platform operations for PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, including backups we prove by restoring them regularly.
• Make AWS service, database and runtime upgrades run with no interruption to Members.
• Build a model of how growth affects our AWS costs, set up load testing, and use both to plan capacity ahead of launches.

How you will grow:

• Shape the technical direction of a whole platform area alongside the Infrastructure team, with the backing to make significant structural changes.
• Shape how every squad builds and ships, through the standards and tooling you create.
• Work on infrastructure for a product people trust with deeply personal data, where security and privacy matter to every Member.
• Grow your Staff-level influence through design reviews, mentoring and cross-team technical leadership.

About you:

• You have deep, hands‑on experience running production systems on AWS across compute (ECS/Fargate, Lambda), data (RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) and networking, including upgrades without downtime and restores you've actually tested.
• You have designed and maintained a large Terraform codebase, including module design, state layout and safe CI/CD for plan and apply.
• You are as comfortable doing the routine work as automating it away, and you have replaced manual operations with automation that other engineers actually adopted.
• You have shaped technical direction for infrastructure at Staff level or equivalent: you write the design, bring people with you, and make the engineers around you more effective.
• You are calm and methodical in incidents, write clearly, and work well in a remote, async team.
• You have designed or run multi‑region architectures on AWS.
• You have run zero‑downtime database upgrades (for example RDS blue/green) or disaster recovery exercises.
• You have built load testing, capacity plans or cost models for a growing product, or reduced AWS spend through rightsizing and commitments.
• You have managed multi‑account AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center as code.
• You have worked with policy‑as‑code and infrastructure scanning.
• You have run Cloudflare at scale (DNS, WAF, Workers).
• You have experience with AWS data and event services.

About Feeld:

Feeld is an independent, experimental and fully remote organisation reshaping the dialogue on dating and sexuality. The company was founded in 2014 and has evolved since to become the open, distributed structure it is now. We have a naturally agile and fluid culture. The whole team is fully remote, which means you work where and when helps you perform at your best. We regard autonomy highly and treat our organisation as a product — we iterate, improve and test things internally to see what works best for everyone.

Our culture:

We believe in creating a safe work environment through humanity, fluidity, safety, transparency and progressiveness. When hiring, we look for culture add rather than culture fit.

Because we are a fully remote team, it's especially important that we create an environment where our colleagues feel included and connected as humans.

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at Feeld:

Feeld promotes open-mindedness, inclusion, diversity and kindness, both in the world and among our own workforce.

We encourage and welcome applications from people with a history of marginalisation, whether because of race, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, national origin, disability (seen or unseen) or any confluence of intersectional identities.

Our goal is a barrier‑free application process and working environment. If you require further details or assistance or have any questions about this process, please let us know at [e-mail] .

Compensation and perks:

We are conscious of how our work and decisions impact other humans and the environment. Feeld's way of working is designed to proactively prevent burnout and an "always on" culture. We believe in technology and working environments that enable people to live a meaningful, fulfilled life.

Therefore, we offer our staff:

• Unlimited paid time off
• A fully remote working situation
• Home office budget
• On-demand therapy sessions and mental health support via Spill

Our compensation system is one of the ways we work to uphold equity and inclusion at Feeld. We strive for openness of information within the organization, keeping decision-making transparent to ensure all voices are heard. We offer a compensation system that is transparent, honest, and equitable. Additionally, we believe all humans deserve to earn a competitive wage, so we offer a Baseline Freedom Salary of £60,000 GBP per year for any role that indexes below that threshold.

Estimated compensation for this role: Total cash compensation varies by geographic location. The market-competitive range for this position is estimated to be between £105,000–£130,000 GBP.

• A screening call with our recruiter to confirm the role is a fit and answer general questions.
• A conversation with the hiring manager focusing on your past work experiences and the work you'll be doing.
• A candidate challenge: an evaluation of the skills relevant to this role, generally about an hour to complete.
• A team conversation to meet the colleagues you'd work with daily, covering team processes, workflow, and the employee experience at Feeld.
• We generally make an offer within 2 weeks of our final call, with a flexible start date as early as the Monday after you sign the offer documentation.
• All interviews are conducted remotely, and interviewers will work with you to find agreeable times based on mutual availability.

We understand we're asking you to invest your time and best efforts in our process, and we're committed to offering transparent communication and prompt feedback as you navigate this application with us.

Is this role truly fully remote or are there location restrictions? Feeld is a fully remote organisation with no stated geographic restrictions in this posting. The company explicitly states you work "where and when helps you perform at your best," though the salary benchmark is based on UK market rates. What is the salary range for the Staff Infrastructure Engineer role? The estimated market-competitive compensation range for this position is £105,000–£130,000 GBP in total cash compensation, varying by geographic location. Feeld also guarantees a minimum Baseline Freedom Salary of £60,000 GBP for any role that falls below that threshold. Will this role require on-call duties? Yes, on-call is planned but not yet in place. The expectation is that you will join the on-call rotation once it has been established, and you will likely help shape how that rotation is structured. What are the core technical requirements for this position? The role requires deep hands-on AWS experience across compute (ECS/Fargate, Lambda), data (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB), and networking, plus significant Terraform codebase ownership experience including module design and CI/CD for infrastructure changes. What does the interview process look like? The process includes a recruiter screening call, a hiring manager interview focused on past experience, a one-hour candidate skills challenge, and a team interview. Feeld typically makes an offer within two weeks of the final call, and all interviews are conducted remotely.

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