Who you are

- Ownership at Scale: 10+ years of experience taking personal ownership of outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments

- AWS &
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Advanced 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: Deep experience implementing Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry at scale

- 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

- As a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader on our Platform Engineering team

- You will architect, 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 or holding blanket ownership over the entire platform, you will drive the technical strategy, architecture, and reliability standards for your designated domains within our multi-region AWS workplace





- We are looking for high-agency engineers who want to own complex distributed system challenges end-to-end and elevate how the entire 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 drive 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: Build end-to-end telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) to proactively spot bottlenecks. You will own 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 and lead from the front by designing "Golden Paths" that strip away friction for feature teams. You will influence company-wide engineering practices and mentor the organization on how to move fast with high alignment

- Customer Impact: Architect and operate high-performance, low-latency private connectivity to optimize the experience for external customers. Partner strategically with internal engineering teams at the design and architectural 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 benefits starts on Day 1!

- New hire home office set up allowance

- Professional learning reimbursement

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