Software Engineer, Infra

The role

You will design and build core infrastructure, improve service reliability and observability, and ensure platform scalability. You will work on highly scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support APIs, services, and data pipelines.

What you will do

• Design and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support critical APIs, services, and data pipelines.
• Lead infrastructure architecture decisions for performance, observability, and fault tolerance.
• Drive improvements in system reliability, monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate closely with product, platform, and data engineering teams.
• Automate infrastructure management through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration.
• Champion best practices in operational excellence, disaster recovery, and distributed systems design.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling backend or infrastructure systems in high-growth environments.
• Proficiency in Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS (or equivalent cloud platforms).
• Experience managing containerized workloads using tools like Kubernetes, ECS, or similar.
• Expertise in observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry) and monitoring pipelines.
• Proven ability to design fault-tolerant, distributed systems at scale.
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills across the stack.
• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with experience partnering cross-functionally.
• Startup mindset: Not scared of ambiguity and hungry for rapid growth
• Intensity & Ownership: This is not a 9-5
• Customer Obsession: You deeply care about the user experience and solving their problems

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, tax, accounting, or regulatory tech.
• Infrastructure or platform engineering background (e.g., CI/CD, observability).
• Experience scaling monolith-to-service architectures or event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Kafka, Terraform, or container orchestration tools.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Wellness perks like Headspace and the Peloton One App
• 401(k)
• Relocation assistance to NYC or SF (if needed)
• Lunch and snacks when you're in the office
• Regular team offsites and company events

About the company

Numeral is an AI-native tax solution serving more than 3,500 global businesses. The company has raised over $157M from investors including Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Mayfield, and Y Combinator.