CareerPlan

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

New YorkFull-time$215k–$295k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Own the stability, performance, and regional resilience of core services, data stores, and data pipelines for a regulated financial services platform.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

Builds

Core services, data stores, data pipelines, and shared engineering tooling

Domain

Financial services / Cloud Infrastructure

Required skills

Java backend development, MongoDB at scale, Kubernetes operations, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), observability (Datadog), data pipeline engineering, agentic tooling

Preferred skills

Application profiling (JVM, flame graphs), cloud networking (VPC, service mesh), fintech compliance (SOC 2, PCI DSS), cloud security (IAM, secrets management), cloud certifications (GCP, AWS, CKA)

Technologies

Java, MongoDB, Kubernetes, GKE, Terraform, Datadog

Responsibilities

Lead regional resilience work including multi-region operation and failover; Plan and run zero-downtime service and database migrations; Lead response to infrastructure incidents and postmortems; Set technical direction through design reviews; Improve shared tooling including agentic AI tools

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC