Kikoff
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
$307K–$352K
San Francisco +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or software engineering experience, or an equivalent record of Staff-level technical impact.
About the job
Own and evolve production infrastructure systems and internal platform products that help engineering teams deliver software quickly, reliably, securely, and cost-effectively.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate self-service AWS infrastructure and platform capabilities, including reliability, security, cost, incident response, and recovery.
- Turn engineering friction into paved paths, automation, and internal tools; measure their effects on delivery, reliability, cost, toil, and on-call load.
- Set technical direction, review designs and code, partner across teams, and lead incident learning and improvement.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or software engineering experience, or an equivalent record of Staff-level technical impact.
- Sustained ownership of a consequential production system, including operating it, handling incidents, and improving it afterward.
- Strong production coding skills in TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language.
- Production experience with AWS, infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, and security boundaries.
Nice to have
- Deep experience in observability, developer productivity, cloud compute, networking, storage, data infrastructure, or security.
- Experience with Pulumi and TypeScript on AWS, or operating an early-stage platform through rapid growth in fintech or another regulated environment.
Pay
$307,000 — $352,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Pulumi, HCL, TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Go, ECS or Fargate
AI focus
Build infrastructure that can absorb the increased volume of code and change associated with AI without increasing incidents, unsustainable costs, or reliance on heroics.
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