Posh
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
New York City. Posted a month ago
The role
You will design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure to support millions of users. You will work with product, data, and security teams to ensure system reliability and performance through automation and developer tooling.
What you will do
- Design and evolve resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code systems.
- Implement alerting, logging, and tracing systems.
- Partner with engineers to set infrastructure priorities.
- Contribute to IAM design, least-privilege access, and posture management.
- Identify bottlenecks and reliability risks.
- Coach engineers on infrastructure design, cloud efficiency, and secure deployment.
- Investigate performance and cost across cloud infrastructure, databases, and application access patterns.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience as an Infrastructure, DevOps, or Backend Engineer.
- Extensive experience with Terraform and reusable infrastructure-as-code patterns.
- Deep knowledge of AWS services (ECS/EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.) and infrastructure automation (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/K8s), and orchestration systems (ECS, EKS, or equivalent).
- Proficiency in JavaScript or Python, and familiarity with scripting for automation.
- Strong grasp of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and cost optimization.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, observability, and system reliability.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Experience with multi-region or distributed cloud systems.
- Exposure to compliance and security tooling for cloud posture management.
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure tools.
- Background in mentoring engineers or leading reliability initiatives.
About the company
Posh is a platform that enables anyone to build an IRL community based on shared interests. The company has a team of 70 and over 10M users.