Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

About this role

#### Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

- Location: New York, NY (On-site, 5 days/week) Compensation: $190,000 – $220,000 base + competitive equity (14% first-year upside + bonus potential) Hiring: 1 ASAPThe Role Own self-hosted deployments for sensitive federal/defense customers. Start hands-on with diverse environments (cloud to air-gapped on-prem), customer guidance, and debugging; evolve to automation and broader infrastructure platform ownership.
- What You’ll Do
- - Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure for large customers across heterogeneous setups.
- Harden security configurations and support compliant architectures (FedRAMP Moderate equivalent, CMMC, NIST SP 800-53, IL-5/6).
- Contribute to the product codebase for deployability, observability, and reliability.
- Act as forward-deployed engineer (potential on-site classified work).
- Debug complex issues in novel environments; improve observability.
- Participate in on-call rotation.
- Build automation, playbooks, and tools for scalable multi-customer support.Requirements
- 3+ years infrastructure software engineering.
- Production Kubernetes ownership.
- On-call debugging experience.
- Startup background (Series B/C preferred); forward-deployed or gov-sector nice-to-have.
- Proficiency in Pulumi/Terraform; strong networking/OS/cybersecurity.
- Regulated env experience (FedRAMP/CMMC/NIST).
- Automation mindset; strong communication.
- US Person per ITAR; TS/SCI major plus.

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