Senior Software Engineer, DevOps/Infrastructure

As Staff Engineer on the Control Plane / Core team, you're one of a handful of people who set the technical direction for how every engineering team at Engine builds and ships. You won't be embedded in a single vertical — you're working on the substrate underneath all of them.

You'll be hands-on with

• AWS control plane— multi-account architecture, account vending, VPC networking, organizational guardrails, IAM boundaries.
• CI/CD platform— template pipelines, shared GitHub Actions/workflows, org-level policies, secret distribution. You moderate what's shared; teams contribute upward.
• Terraform execution— Terraform Cloud workspaces, module registry, our internal modules, the tooling that lets a feature team stand up a namespace and start shipping in hours, not weeks.
• Networking & security— Cloudflare (WAF, DNS, WARP, page rules), core network topology, certificate management.
• Vendor integrations— Datadog, JFrog, Terraform Cloud, GitHub OIDC — the connective tissue between vendors and our accounts.
• Cost observability— tooling and dashboards that give teams visibility into what they own and spend.

You'll also be a force multiplier for the embedded engineers: the patterns, modules, and primitives you build are what they hand to feature teams. When something embedded engineers keep solving locally needs to become a paved road, that's your work.

What You'll Do

• Lead the technical evolution of the control plane — not just keep it running, but decide where it goes next.
• Design and ship platform primitives (Terraform modules, pipeline templates, account/networking patterns) that feature teams adopt because they're better than the alternative — not because they're mandated.
• Partner with embedded infra engineers to identify recurring friction across verticals and turn it into self-serve capability.
• Own the boring-but-critical work: AWS Organization hygiene, CI/CD reliability, vendor contracts and integration health, incident response on shared infrastructure.
• Mentor across the discipline. We hold infra standups twice a week — that's where you'll teach, learn, and stay aligned with the embedded engineers.
• Reduce the SDLC step-function count. Every new approval gate, every "ask infra first" workflow is a tax — your job is to lower it.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 8+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with deep AWS expertise (multi-account, networking, IAM, security boundaries).
• Expert-level Terraform — you've designed reusable modules, run TFC at scale, and have opinions about state, drift, and execution patterns.
• Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC, secret management.
• Experience with platform engineering: shipping internal tools and abstractions that other engineers actually want to use.
• A bias toward enabling teams over gatekeeping. You'd rather build the paved road than approve the off-road permits.

Strongly preferred

• Cloudflare (WAF, DNS, zero-trust/WARP) at production scale.
• Datadog, JFrog, or comparable vendor integration experience.
• Background in cost observability or FinOps tooling.
• History of working in or alongside embedded/platform models — you understand the difference between a platform team and a ticket queue.