Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Ironclad
$190-210k
+ Includes equity awards
Enterprise software for managing contracts
Be an early applicant
Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-210k
+ Includes equity awards
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- 5 - 7+ years of experience operating performant distributed systems
- Strong expertise in cloud platforms (GCP and AWS)
- Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code, particularly Terraform
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern programming practices
- Deep understanding of PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with containerization and Kubernetes orchestration
- Strong Linux systems administration skills and understanding of OS internals
- Proven track record of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Salt)
- Strong foundation in distributed systems and concurrency control
- Expert-level knowledge of observability, monitoring, and alerting practices
- First Principles Thinking: Ability to break down complex problems and focus on delivering what matters most to users
- System Design: Strong ability to design scalable, resilient distributed systems
- Problem Solving: Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Communication: Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to various stakeholders
- Leadership: Experience in technical leadership and mentoring
- Initiative: Self-motivated with a strong drive to improve and automate processes
Desirable
- Contributions to open-source projects
- Experience building developer platforms and tooling
- Track record of improving system reliability and performance at scale
- Experience with capacity planning and cost optimization
- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements
- Experience mentoring and leading technical initiatives
- Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures and best practices
- Experience handling incident response and post-mortem analysis
- Track record of improving system reliability through automation
- Contributions to technical documentation and knowledge sharing
- Experience with multi-region and high-availability architectures
- Demonstrated ability to balance technical debt with business needs
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to help build and maintain our cloud-native infrastructure across multiple environments
- You'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and operating highly available, scalable systems that power our production services
- We believe in fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- You'll have opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies while solving complex challenges at scale
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions across GCP and AWS environments
- Architect and maintain database systems including PostgreSQL and NoSQL solutions
- Drive infrastructure-as-code initiatives using Terraform and other modern DevOps tools
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable software delivery
- Implement and maintain observability solutions across our distributed systems
- Collaborate with development teams to improve system reliability and performance
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical decision-making
- Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency
- Shape the technical direction of our infrastructure and platform
- Drive adoption of modern Platform Engineering practices across the organization
- Improve system reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency
- Build scalable solutions that enable rapid product development
- Mentor and grow the technical capabilities of the engineering team
Our take
Business contracting is often inefficient and messy, with approvals required from various stakeholders and many processes still paper-based. Ironclad is a platform that digitises, automates, and streamlines contract workflows, allowing legal teams to focus on legal work rather than paperwork. Ironclad’s platform features collaborative tools that facilitate business operations and extract and catalog contract metadata, making information easier to access and act upon. Its enterprise customers include Dropbox, Mastercard, Pixar, Fox, and L’Oréal.
Despite its success, Ironclad faces competition in the $3 billion contract lifecycle management industry from major players like DocuSign and emerging ones like Contractbook. The company recently announced Ironclad Signature, marking its entry into the $25 billion eSignature market. The new feature speeds up the signature process by an estimated 80% and provides summaries and approval histories to users. This new tool is expected to strengthen Ironclad's position in the sell-side contract lifecycle management market.
Additionally, Ironclad introduced value-based pricing, charging only for completed, signed agreements, unlike other providers who charge for every signature packet sent out. Ironclad, backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND, remains committed to innovating and maintaining its leadership in the contract lifecycle management space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $334.1m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- Wellness reimbursement
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Intent
- Empathy
- Drive
- Integrity
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Cai GoGwilt
(CTO & Chief Architect)Studied HSPS at Cambridge, and Computer Science at MIT. Was a Summer Technology Analayst at Goldman Sachs. Worked as a Research Assistant at MIT. Was a Software Engineer at Palantir.
Jason Boehmig
(CEO)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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