Who you are

- Ownership at Scale: 7+ years of experience taking personal ownership of outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments

- AWS &
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Strong proficiency in AWS ecosystems leveraging Terraform to build reproducible environments

- Containerization &

- Orchestration: Strong, hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions)

- Automation &

- Scripting: Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash to automate infrastructure and build operational tools

- Observability Expertise: Experience implementing and maintaining Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

- Security &

- Networking Foundations: Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation, viewing security as a fundamental engineering constraint, not an afterthought

- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products

- BA/BS degree
- A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment

- Experience managing distributed data streaming platforms like Kafka (MSK)

- Database performance tuning and query optimization skills

- Familiarity with Java / Spring Framework services

What the job involves

- VGS is building the platform powering agentic commerce and global payments infrastructure. VGS Engineering is the pillar that supports that vision

- We create a platform that is an indispensable, ubiquitous component of our partners' payments and security infrastructure. We build and operate high-scale, reliable, and resilient systems that manage mission-critical payment data across the globe.



We don't just participate in the payments ecosystem; we power it

- Modern Tooling as Leverage: We value speed and impact. To ensure nothing slows you down, we arm you with a highly consistent modern stack (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Java, TypeScript, Python) and world-class AI-augmented SDLC tooling. We strip away the friction so you can focus on the problems that demand creativity and judgment

- As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader on our Platform Engineering team. You will design, scale, and fortify global cloud infrastructure designed to handle mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications with zero downtime

- You will take ownership of key platform foundations powering our core payments infrastructure. Rather than executing against a rigid task list, you will drive the execution, architecture, and reliability standards for your designated domains within our multi-region AWS environment

- We are looking for high-agency engineers who want to own complex distributed system challenges end-to-end and elevate how the engineering team operates. If you thrive on solving complex distributed systems problems, building automated resiliency, and driving modern SRE practices, we want to build the future with you

- Build Immutable, Self-Healing Systems: Design, build, and optimize multi-region,



high-availability AWS infrastructure. You will execute our evolution from hand-crafted environments to a standardized, globally scalable fleet managed entirely through code

- Drive Resiliency &
- Automation: Replace manual toil with self-healing, automated infrastructure using GitOps, modern CI/CD pipelines, and IaC

- Deep Observability &

- Resiliency: Implement end-to-end telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to proactively spot bottlenecks. You will drive incident management and conduct blameless post-mortems to continuously harden our reliability baseline

- Force-Multiply Engineering Velocity: Partner closely with Product, Security, and Core Engineering teams to implement "Golden Paths" that strip away friction for feature teams. You will influence engineering practices within your domain and mentor engineers on how to move fast with high alignment

- Customer Impact: Implement and operate high-performance, low-latency private connectivity to optimize the experience for external customers. Partner with internal engineering teams at the design level for platform enablement and adoption

Benefits

- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance

- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match

- Life & disability insurance

- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)

- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO

- 11 US company holidays

- Eligibility for health advantages starts on Day 1!

- New hire home office set up allowance

- Professional learning reimbursement

📌 Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Canada)
🏢 Very Good Security
📍 Canada