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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

medallionakafirstlayerai Remote


No Relocation

Posted: February 5, 2026

Job Description

About the role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a critical role in building and maintaining the foundational systems that power our engineering organization. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and internal tooling to improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and enabling others to ship high-quality software faster and safer.

Compensation for this role is between $150,000 - $220,000 depending on location and level.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, and performance
  • Define and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent and auditable environments
  • Develop, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development cycles and ensure high code quality
  • Implement and maintain observability tools for monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics across distributed systems
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure meets organizational and regulatory requirements
  • Build and maintain internal developer tooling to streamline workflows, improve productivity, and support operational excellence
  • Integrate with third-party data services and APIs to enable robust, scalable data flows and platform capabilities

Requirements: 

  • 4+ years of experience as an infrastructure engineer or software engineer
  • Expertise with public cloud infrastructure and relational databases
  • Infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Able to write code in at least one high level language
  • Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong track record with observability, monitoring, alerting

Plusses:

  • Deep experience with AWS, especially ECS / EKS and RDS
  • Vendor management experience, cost optimization
  • Security/compliance experience

 

 

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Additional Content

About the role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll play a critical role in building and maintaining the foundational systems that power our engineering organization. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, security, and internal tooling to improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and enabling others to ship high-quality software faster and safer.

Compensation for this role is between $150,000 - $220,000 depending on location and level.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure with a focus on reliability, security, and performance
  • Define and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform to ensure consistent and auditable environments
  • Develop, improve, and support CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development cycles and ensure high code quality
  • Implement and maintain observability tools for monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics across distributed systems
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure infrastructure meets organizational and regulatory requirements
  • Build and maintain internal developer tooling to streamline workflows, improve productivity, and support operational excellence
  • Integrate with third-party data services and APIs to enable robust, scalable data flows and platform capabilities

Requirements: 

  • 4+ years of experience as an infrastructure engineer or software engineer
  • Expertise with public cloud infrastructure and relational databases
  • Infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Able to write code in at least one high level language
  • Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong track record with observability, monitoring, alerting

Plusses:

  • Deep experience with AWS, especially ECS / EKS and RDS
  • Vendor management experience, cost optimization
  • Security/compliance experience

 

 

#LI-Remote