Senior Software Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer, Textio

• A solid foundation in modern computing concepts, built through education or practical experience
• Extensive experience in SRE and DevOps (particularly supporting SaaS products), including proficiency with AWS services, Linux administration, Docker, and with building resilient cloud infrastructure
• Expertise writing maintainable scripts with Terraform, CDK, and shell scripts, and with languages like Python, Go, etc
• Versatile communication skills for diverse audiences and a collaborative, team-oriented approach
• Experience establishing GitOps practices and configuring CI/CD pipelines, particularly with CircleCI
• Model strong customer focus, communication skills, and empathy, bringing leadership experience to support business initiatives and goals
• Have a low ego but a strong point of view
• Prior security experience (Key Management, Encryption, etc.)

Desirable

• As our Senior Software Engineer owning Infrastructure, you'll lead the charge in designing, optimizing, and scaling our systems to meet this challenge
• You won't just keep things running—you'll lay the foundation for the next generation of our platform, ensuring it's efficient, secure, and right sized for the demands of hundreds of thousands of users
• If you're energized by the idea of scaling infrastructure for massive growth, solving complex technical problems, and being the go-to person for infrastructure vision and execution, we'd love to hear from you!
• Employing automation to streamline operations and to proactively prevent and repair service disruptions
• Collaborating with other teams to align infrastructure with product, operational, and compliance objectives
• Staying informed about industry trends and technologies, and introducing new solutions for ongoing improvement
• Identifying, building, and guiding major initiatives from conception to launch
• Advancing CI/CD pipelines and championing a DevOps culture, with a focus on practices like Infrastructure as Code (IaC), proactive monitoring, and effective alerting
• Ensuring operational environments effectively serve engineering teams and strategically contain cloud expenditures
• Defining and delivering critical infrastructure support and meticulously documenting designs and procedures to promote collective progress
• Participating in an on-call rotation that prioritizes a healthy work-life balance