Senior Software Engineer (Platform Infrastructure)

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Engineer on the Production Infrastructure team to contribute to reactive ticketing work, design and build application and cloud infrastructure requests, and optimize usage of database software and RDS infrastructure. As a highly skilled individual contributor, you will scale out Cedar's production application infrastructure, implement new applications, build and maintain tools for self-service infrastructure, and contribute to the design and production of multiple high-impact projects.

Requirements

• 6+ years of DevOps, infrastructure, or site reliability experience
• Expertise with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, and S3
• Advanced understanding of managed database services such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Redshift
• Demonstrated experience with database software such as Postgres specifically scaling and working with engineering teams to ensure their code is performant and scalable
• Significant experience deploying applications/tools into production cloud environments with configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef and/or Puppet
• Excellent scripting skills (Bash, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
• Proficiency with modern networking & identity for private cloud and public Internet services and infrastructure security (https, SSH, 2FA, etc.)
• Managed Linux systems and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Familiarity with database and application performance management

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers across Cedar’s product organization to optimize usage of our database software and RDS infrastructure
• Scale out Cedar’s production application infrastructure and implement new applications
• Build and maintain tools for a self-service infrastructure that improves developer efficiency
• Contribute to the design and production of multiple high-impact projects, working across engineering teams to brainstorm and refine solutions, then make them a reality
• Contribute to the Cedar cloud platform, seeking opportunities to make it more stable, cost-efficient, and maintainable and working with leadership to prioritize projects to do that

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS advanced networking services like VPC Peering, Direct Connect, AWS Transit Gateway, and Elastic Load Balancing
• Hands-on experience with serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and the Serverless Framework
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools and platforms like Jenkins, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging solutions in AWS like CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and integration with third-party tools such as Datadog
• Experience with microservices architectures and patterns, understanding of service mesh technologies like Istio or AWS App Mesh
• Experience in establishing and managing AWS Security Hub, AWS Config, or implementing infrastructure security audits

Benefits

• Salary/Hourly Rate Range*: $161,500 - $190,000
• This role is equity eligible
• This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
• Unless stated otherwise, most roles have flexibility to work from home or in the office, depending on what works best for you
• For exempt employees: Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of PTO per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
• 16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
• Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including the Cedarian Advisory Group (a cross-functional cohort focused on increasing internal inclusiveness at Cedar) and three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
• Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles) and health benefits that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
• Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
• Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally