Outtake
Software Engineer, Infastructure
$160K–$300K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds production infrastructure for Outtake’s data-intensive platform, including search, databases, asynchronous systems, data processing, and cloud architecture.
What you'll do
- Redesign search and retrieval, relational database architecture, and high-volume data processing systems.
- Build and operate scalable asynchronous systems, shared infrastructure services, and cloud foundations; lead safe migrations.
- Set architectural direction, establish standards, and guide engineers through complex infrastructure decisions.
What they ask for
- Experience operating at staff scope, setting direction across teams and leading complex projects through adoption.
- Track record designing and building distributed infrastructure systems used by engineers or products, and scaling production systems.
- Deep knowledge of relational database architecture, including data modeling, indexing, partitioning, sharding, caching, and migration.
- Experience with high-throughput asynchronous systems, large-scale search and retrieval, and large-volume ingestion, streaming, or batch processing.
Pay
$160K – $300K (base salary)
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