Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our global container and cloud infrastructure. You will drive scale, reliability, and performance across multiple product teams and coordinate with backend and platform engineers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, steer technical decisions, and help shape the roadmap for distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud services, ensuring secure, resilient operations at internet scale.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• 15+ years of professional experience in a software development or devops automation role
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience leading cross-team projects
• Strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services
• Experience optimizing reliability and security of distributed systems
• Experience with scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
• Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
• Experience using major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/Google
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with ops culture and metrics, alarms, dashboards

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all the company service teams
• Lead technical conversations and decision making with other infrastructure and backend teams
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at the company
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Identify the shared compute needs across the company and prioritise solutions

Skills

Kubernetes

Networking

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS)

Leadership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Who we areAbout the company

the company is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies-from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups-use the company to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Infrastructure team at the company owns core components used by all product teams to build micro-services which support our business. This includes defining and driving the vision necessary to achieve best of breed scale and availability. Some of the technologies that we work with include Linux OS, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, and AWS networking components. We continuously invest in building new distributed services and scaling existing technologies while working with various teams to meet their current and future needs.

the company's infrastructure powers businesses all over the world. We process payments, run marketplaces, help entrepreneurs start an internet business from anywhere in the world, and more. The Compute organization is composed of teams that manage our OS components, cloud infrastructure, Linux servers, container orchestration, and deployments. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in enabling the company's infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio.

What you'll do

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer in Compute, you will play a key leadership role in enabling the company's infrastructure to power all of our products, globally and at scale. Your solutions will allow our business to scale and achieve a best in class price/performance ratio. You'll also work with engineers across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all the company service teams
• Lead technical conversations and decision making with other infrastructure and backend teams
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at the company
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Identify the shared compute needs across the company, understand their specific requirements and prioritise solutions

Who you are

We're looking for someone with a strong background in networking cloud infrastructure who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field
• 15+ years of professional experience in a software development or devops automation role
• Networking experience (development or system administration) over a number of years
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience leading projects on a cross-team or company-wide scale
• A strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services
• Experience optimising the reliability and security of distributed systems
• Experience with scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
• Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
• Experience using one of the major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/Google
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with ops culture and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms, and dashboards