Senior - Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Senior or Staff level Infrastructure Engineer (6-13+ years of experience) to join our Infrastructure team and contribute to the technical foundation of Paperless Post. In this role, you’ll build tools to manage infrastructure and solve operational problems. You modularize, reuse, and version control your infrastructure as code. You know when to use the latest technologies and when to automate, but still value uptime, performance, and stability.

You follow best practices but iterate over your projects quickly and smartly.

We want to continue building on our Kubernetes-based platform by extending its capabilities to support more modern architectures and workflows, all in service of providing the best experience possible for our customers.

• Build and work with Kubernetes clusters - and all the related tooling!
• Create and maintain internal tools and services, with developers as end users
• Build infrastructure as code - we are big fans of Terraform and use it extensively
• Troubleshoot production and systems issues across the breadth of our tech stack
• Architect and build major components of our platform; projects such as re-imagining our logging pipeline, building out smart auto-scaling capabilities for our apps to utilize, etc.
• Maintain a variety of existing systems across our AWS infrastructure
• Contribute your expertise in collaborating with developers to drive important workflow improvements for our org
• Become our team’s subject matter expert within the various domains that your projects touch
• Participate in on-call rotation and have a strong desire to make on-call better for everyone

• Willingness to learn and explore a wide variety of systems - members of our team must frequently dive into unfamiliar codebases and work with them
• Proven ability to architect a solution to a problem based on a minimal set of constraints and organizational needs, and drive it through implementation and release
• Ability to execute effectively as the primary individual contributor on a project
• Collaboration skills - we pair with other Infra team members or developers from outside the team if the project calls for it
• Experience orchestrating infrastructure using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or other similar tooling
• Experience with a modern container-based cloud application environment (Kubernetes, Lambda, etc)
• Understanding that applications are not "production-ready" unless they're instrumented and monitored

• AWS experience, especially around IAM and EC2 (among many other systems!)
• Postgres/RDS specific database administration knowledge
• Strong system fundamentals - Linux/sysadmin chops, networking knowledge, etc
• Experience with modern observability best practices
• You use AI tooling (Claude Code, Open Code, etc) to modernize and adapt your workflow to the changing infrastructure engineering landscape

• We are primarily on AWS, though we do use a small assortment of other providers
• Our primary data stores are Postgre
  
  SQL, Redis, and MongoDB
• We utilize Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Loki, and more systems to aid in system observability
• Our CI/CD pipelines are primarily driven by Circle
  
  CI and ArgoCD

The compensation range for the Senior Infrastructure Engineer I - II (L4- L5) role is $156,.

The compensation range for the Staff Infrastructure Engineer (L6) role is $200,000- $220,000 USD.

At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.

As set forth in Paperless Post’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Women, people of color, trans/gender queer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.