Staff Infrastructure Engineer
- Pay
- $200,000 – $260,000 per year
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
- Listed
- Today
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the reliability, performance and cost of a company's production cloud infrastructure, from architecture and database operations to setting the standards the engineering team works to. Advise leadership on early-stage infrastructure choices as the platform scales.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve cloud architecture on AWS.
- Run production database operations, including sizing, replication and recovery.
- Set and maintain reliability standards for production systems.
- Improve the performance and cost efficiency of live infrastructure.
- Advise the team on which languages and databases to adopt early on.
What we're looking for
- Deep AWS expertise.
- Hands-on experience tuning and operating PostgreSQL in production.
- Experience building cloud infrastructure from scratch, provisioning resources directly rather than only using existing internal tools.
- Proven results improving response times or spend in running environments, with support for time-sensitive workloads.
- Daily use of AI coding tools in infrastructure work, or a willingness to learn them.
Bonus points
- Prior experience reworking the design of a live system to handle growth without downtime.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 260,000 per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan with company match
- Flexible time off
- Professional development training
Location and work model
- Palo Alto, California, United States
- Hybrid, with in-office days as needed
- Full-time
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
From Raydar's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 12, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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