Engine · 3 days ago
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Denver, CO
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$137K/yr - $190K/yr
8+ years expEngine is transforming business travel into a personalized and rewarding experience. As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead the architectural strategy of the infrastructure platform, ensuring reliability and scalability while driving strategic business outcomes across multiple engineering teams.
Business TravelHospitalityHotelTravel
Responsibilities
Define and drive the multi-year roadmap for the cloud infrastructure platform, making high-stakes, strategic decisions around performance, cost, and maintainability. Serve as the ultimate domain expert for critical systems
Architect and lead the implementation of our strategic Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform, ensuring the solution provides organizational leverage and adheres to a robust, scalable governance model
Own and drive the evolution of the organization's deployment ecosystem, setting the standard for secure, reliable, and high-velocity enterprise-wide deployment strategy
Define the company's observability strategy (SLOs/SLIs) and lead major, cross-functional incident response efforts. Leverage deep system-level thinking to diagnose root causes and prevent recurrence of high-impact outages
Architect and own the core platform capabilities and system-level contracts that unlock significant self-service capabilities for all product engineering teams, maximizing autonomy while enforcing guardrails
Set the technical standards and best practices for infrastructure engineering across the organization. Provide hands-on coaching and mentoring to Senior and Principal engineers, influencing the technical direction of peer teams
Partner with Security and Compliance leadership to integrate advanced security controls and policy enforcement mechanisms at the architectural layer, ensuring compliance without sacrificing developer velocity
Qualification
Required
8+ years of high-impact experience in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure roles, with a proven history of designing and operating large-scale, multi-account production systems on AWS
Deep expertise in system-level programming and architectural design in languages such as Go or Python, used to engineer internal infrastructure platforms and APIs
Proven track record of owning critical outcomes end-to-end across multiple functions and driving results with multi-departmental impact
Ability to think strategically across functions, connecting technology decisions to company objectives and translating abstract concepts into clear, actionable engineering plans
Expert-level knowledge of IaC (Terraform strongly preferred) and hands-on experience designing and operating container orchestration systems (Kubernetes/EKS)
Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted technical advisor and driving change on cross-functional initiatives across a large group of stakeholders
Preferred
Experience developing and evangelizing an Infrastructure as a Product (IaaP) or Internal Developer Platform (IDP) strategy
Expertise in advanced cloud networking, Cloudflare, security primitives, and compliance frameworks
Prior experience contributing to company strategy through innovative and effective solutions
Benefits
Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
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Company
Engine
The modern travel platform for booking and managing business trips
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$221MKey Investors
PermiraTelescope Partners
2024-09-17Series C· $140M
2021-12-02Series B· $65M
2019-09-05Series A· $16M
Leadership Team
Elia Wallen
Founder/CEO
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Benjamin Bean
Software Engineering Manager
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