Senior Software Enginee, VSCO
Infra
$172-185k
+ Equity and discretionary bonuses
Creative platform for photographers
Be an early applicant
Creative platform for photographers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$172-185k
+ Equity and discretionary bonuses
201-500 employees
Company mission
To equip photographers with the tools, community, and exposure they need to expand creatively and professionally.
Role
Who you are
- You thrive on solving tough infrastructure problems, designing elegant automation, and improving systems that scale
- You’re also someone who enjoys collaborating across teams and bringing a sense of ownership to everything you do
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, backend, or site reliability engineering
- Skilled in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, etc.)
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
- Understanding of system design principles and experience applying them at scale
- Demonstrated commitment to growth, both personal and organizational—actively seeking to extend your knowledge and share it with others
- Experience with Linux operating systems (specifically Amazon Linux)
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable
- Experience with the Hashicorp tool suite (Vagrant, Terraform, Packer, Consul)
- Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc
- Comfortable/Experienced with programming languages like Go, PHP, NodeJS, Java, Ruby, Python
- Experience with Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)
- Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and/or other automation tools
- Have used Cursor or similar AI tools
- Experience monitoring and debugging high volume distributed systems
- A passion for photography, visual storytelling, or creative communities
- BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help build the foundation that powers VSCO’s products and internal developer experience
- You’ll join a small but impactful team responsible for reliability, scalability, and operational excellence
- From shaping our AWS environment to building tooling that makes engineers more effective, your work will have a direct impact on VSCO’s ability to move fast while staying stable
- The day-to-day
- Be responsible for infrastructure stability and uptime
- Develop and improve internal tools for automation
- Build next-generation operations on AWS with tools like Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design, implement and improve our infrastructure and tools
- Participate in our on-call rotation responding to production issues
- Work closely with other teams to design and maintain backend services and systems
- Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering teams to support product initiatives
Application process
- The application window for this role will be open until at least 6/28/2025
Our take
VSCO (pronounced "vis-co") is a photo and video editing app that's all about creativity without the pressure. Unlike Instagram and Facebook, which are driven by ads and likes, VSCO focuses on making money through subscriptions, giving users a refreshing break from the constant follower count anxiety.
Co-founded by an ex-wedding photographer passionate about simple, beautiful photography and a former Creative Director, VSCO knows exactly what the creative community crave. While it competes with Instagram and newer apps like Tezza, VSCO has built a strong, loyal following with its creator-first approach, which will most definitely help it see future success.
Kirsty
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Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2015
$30m
SERIES B
May 2014
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $70m
Company benefits
- Balance: Flexibility is really important to us, and family always takes precedence. We have a Flexible Time Off policy for eligible employees, and we encourage each other to take breaks so that we can do our best work, refreshed. We also offer paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave so you can take the time you need to disconnect
- Benefits: Our team’s health and wellness is a top priority. VSCO offers flexible time off, a 401(k) retirement plan, insurance (medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, short and long-term disability), 11 paid holidays, and a monthly tech & well-being stipend. Employees also have access to well-being perks such as Peloton, Wellhub (formerly Gympass), One Medical, Spring Health, and Headspace
- Remote Work @ VSCO: VSCO operates as a fully remote organization with employees working from their home office across several states in the US, with over 50% of the company working in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. While we are dispersed, teams stay connected through participation in quarterly virtual team-building events and bi-annual in-person offsites
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Eric Wittman
(CEO)Initially served as President of VSCO from 2021 to 2023 before becoming CEO. Previously the CGO/CRO at JLL, COO at Figma, and General Manager at Atlassian.
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