About the role

Are you a systems-minded engineer with deep cloud infrastructure expertise and a passion for building the platforms that power products at scale? Do you enjoy solving hard distributed-systems problems, driving reliability, and partnering closely with engineering teams to architect for growth? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to drive the design, development, and evolution of the systems that keep Fingerprint running fast, securely, and at scale. This is a foundational role on our Infrastructure team, with broad ownership over the systems, tools, and practices that power our engineering organization and customer-facing products.

You'll work across cloud architecture, deployment systems, observability, performance tuning, and developer tooling—helping to define and deliver our platform's reliability and scalability strategy. As a technical leader, you'll also collaborate closely with product engineering, security, and DevOps to ensure our infrastructure is ready for the next phase of growth.

Responsibilities:

• Own a core infrastructure product or subsystem end to end — you design it, ship it, operate it, and are accountable for how it behaves in production.
• Define project goals and success metrics for your work, aligning them with company objectives, and proactively identify and address risks before they become blockers.
• Create technical designs from PRDs and requirements, taking an iterative approach that addresses critical corner cases without over-engineering.
• Build secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure for a broad range of applications and workloads.
• Design, write, and ship software and developer-facing tooling that improves the day-to-day lives of our engineers and reduces toil.
• Manage infrastructure through code and configuration (we primarily use Terraform), consistently applying patterns that align with our overall service architecture.
• Partner with product engineering teams to architect their services for scale, resolving ambiguous requirements directly with stakeholders.
• Participate in incident response and use systematic debugging to diagnose issues within your domain and across services.
• Help tune and evolve monitoring for the team, and use operational data as the basis for proposing stability and performance improvements.
• Approach all engineering work with a security lens — actively looking for vulnerabilities in your own work and in peer reviews.
• Act as the go-to person for hard problems in your area, and mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback so knowledge doesn't silo.
• Drive cross-team collaboration and engage stakeholders outside of engineering, facilitating discussions on technical and process topics.

Qualifications:

• 6–10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering within primarily cloud-based environments (AWS preferred).
• A track record of owning a product or subsystem end to end — you've designed something significant, shipped it, operated it, and lived with the consequences.
• T-shaped expertise: deep specialization in one or two areas, with enough breadth to navigate and contribute across the wider system with minimal guidance.
• Strong hands-on experience managing infrastructure through code and configuration (Terraform or equivalent).
• Depth in cloud infrastructure fundamentals: networking, load balancing, containerization (EKS/Kubernetes), and distributed systems.
• Solid programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language — you write real, production-ready software.
• Hands-on experience operating Redis/ElastiCache in production — including cluster/shard management, failover behavior, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies. This is a current skill gap on our team, so depth here is a strong differentiator.
• Comfort with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar), performance tuning, and incident management.
• Fluency with software engineering best practices: source control, code review, comprehensive test coverage across edge cases and errors, and safe deployment.
• A high level of personal ownership and autonomy, with real experience working without clearly defined requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English — clear technical design docs, PR reviews, and updates that bring engineers outside your team along on a decision.

Compensation & Transparency

For US-based employees, the cash compensation range for this role is $152,000 – $205,000. We set standard ranges for all US roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. However, these ranges are specific to the hiring location and may differ within or outside the US.  Offers vary depending on, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, certifications/licenses, skills, training, and market conditions.

Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.

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