Staff Infrastructure Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. 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. Requirements 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. Benefits 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