Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Join Tabs as a Staff Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer, where you'll own the foundation of our AWS environment, software shipping processes, and monitoring systems. You'll set the infrastructure direction for the company, partner with various teams, and shape engineering and product decisions. This role offers unlimited PTO, fully paid health insurance, complimentary meals, generous parental leave, and tax-free commuter benefits.

Set infrastructure direction for the company, focusing on AWS environment, software shipping, and monitoring.

About Tabs

• Experience mentoring engineers and shaping infrastructure practices across an engineering org
• Expertise operating distributed systems in production at scale, with an implementation-level understanding of messaging systems, partitioning, deploy strategies, and failure modes

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of infrastructure as code and container foundations, with Terraform and Docker at the core.
• Define and evolve reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, and improve observability, alerting, and incident processes.
• You treat CI/CD and environments as products that should be fast, reliable, and self-serve
• You dig into logs and data yourself when something breaks, especially under pressure
• You balance pragmatism with long-term system health

You communicate clearly and work well across teams

• You value learning from failure and improving processes over assigning blame
• You influence through trust and clarity rather than control
• You think in systems: risk, rollback strategy, blast radius, and feedback loops
• A track record of leading high-severity incidents, debugging live production issues from logs and data, and running blameless postmortems
• Expertise with infrastructure as code using Terraform, and ownership of Docker and Git workflows in production
• Experience proposing and evaluating multiple architectures, making trade-offs that fit the company's stage, and driving infrastructure decisions across teams

Requirements

• You've run production systems on AWS and can lead platform-level change
• You're a software engineer first, and your infrastructure expertise is built on that foundation
• Deep hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including container platforms such as ECS/Fargate

Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm

• 8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and setting direction in a fast-moving environment
• Deep experience with observability tooling across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting, including defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Experience designing and running CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, including build parallelization and developer experience improvements
• Experience across more than one architecture or company environment, ideally including both larger companies and high-growth startups
• Experience in one or more modern languages such as TypeScript with a track record of writing production-quality scripts, tools, and services, and still hands-on today

Prisma expertise

• Experience building developer tooling that engineers adopt and rely on
• Experience operating Kafka or a similar distributed messaging system at scale
• Experience owning broad infrastructure surface area at a high-growth startup, including as the primary infrastructure or SRE owner

Pay

USD 220,000 - 270,000