Staff Software Engineer, Mediafly

• Deep experience with AWS (required) and Azure (preferred) cloud environments
• Strong background in cloud cost management and optimization strategies
• Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Track record of maintaining and upgrading infrastructure while minimizing downtime
• Experience improving developer experience through observability, CI/CD pipelines, and alerting practices
• Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong grasp of IAM, networking, and cloud security best practices
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team, strategic initiatives and mentor other engineers

Desirable

• We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to take ownership of our cloud infrastructure
• This is a senior individual contributor role with broad scope and impact
• You will ensure our infrastructure remains secure, resilient, and efficient by leading initiatives in uptime, compliance, developer experience, and cost optimization
• Your work will directly address critical business needs: maintaining uptime, passing penetration tests and audits, managing and evolving our infrastructure, improving developer experience, and optimizing cloud spend
• This role is both technical and strategic: you’ll lead complex cross-cutting initiatives, guide long-term architectural decisions, and roll up your sleeves to implement solutions
• As part of the team, you will also participate in the on-call rotation to ensure reliability and responsiveness
• You'll ensure infrastructure uptime, resilience, and observability across core platforms
• Lead initiatives to address penetration test findings and remediate risks in a timely manner to protect customer trust and enable sales/renewals
• Partner with security and compliance teams to align infrastructure with SOC 2, ISO, and customer privacy requirements
• Manage and optimize AWS and Azure spend, including savings plans, reserved instances, and account-level discount strategies
• Drive infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and improvements with minimal downtime
• Improve developer experience by strengthening observability, deployment pipelines, and alerting systems
• Provide technical leadership on cloud architecture, DevOps practices, and roadmap decisions affecting the broader engineering organization
• Enable other engineers to own day-to-day DevOps tasks by improving tooling, documentation, and processes
• Coach and mentor engineers to build stronger cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure expertise across the team
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support uptime and operational excellence
• What success looks like:
• Penetration test and audit findings are remediated quickly, reducing SOC exceptions and enabling smooth renewals and sales cycles
• AWS spend is stable, predictable, and optimized through proactive discount and rightsizing strategies
• Infrastructure is resilient and secure, with measurable improvements in uptime and incident reduction
• Developer experience improves through better deployment pipelines, observability, and alerting, enabling faster, safer delivery
• Engineering teams maintain velocity by spending less time on cloud operations and more on feature delivery