Gusto
Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
$163K–$247K
Denver, CO - Hybrid +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Denver, CO - Hybrid
New York, NY - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid
San Francisco, CA - Hybrid - Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.
About the job
Build and operate AWS cloud infrastructure and automation, setting architecture and operational standards while improving reliability, resilience, and engineering workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform/OpenTofu and improve Spacelift workflows.
- Migrate production services to a multi-account AWS architecture and strengthen disaster recovery and compliance readiness.
- Develop reusable infrastructure components, support engineering teams, and participate in an on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- Deep production-level AWS expertise across compute, networking, identity, and security.
- Mastery of Infrastructure as Code, including module design, state management, and scalable patterns.
- Experience with multi-account AWS governance and a managed IaC orchestration platform.
- Experience operating production infrastructure for a customer-facing SaaS platform, including observability and incident response; track record delivering multi-quarter initiatives with minimal direction.
Nice to have
- Operating Terraform/OpenTofu at large scale; experience in compliance-regulated environments (SOC 2, PCI, NIST).
- Cloud networking foundations including VPC design, IP address management, DNS, egress control, and centralized traffic inspection.
Pay
163,000–204,000 USD base salary in Denver; 197,000–247,000 USD base salary for San Francisco & New York
Tools
AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu, Spacelift, Crossplane, CloudFormation, AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center
AI focus
Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate infrastructure development, improve troubleshooting, and identify automation opportunities while maintaining security, correctness, and reliability.
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