Nametag

Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$120k - $190k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS and Fly.io.
  • Own deployment strategy, service design, schema migrations, and rollout safety for monolith and microservices systems.
  • Manage infrastructure-as-code with CloudFormation, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
  • Identify and remediate reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and security gaps.
  • Evolve logging, distributed tracing, metrics, uptime monitoring, on-call practices, and incident response.
  • Manage GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and establish deployment best practices.
  • Build internal platform tooling and abstractions that reduce engineering toil.
  • Design and operate data pipelines and MLOps infrastructure for production ML systems.
  • Partner with engineering and product leadership on technical roadmap decisions.
  • Review code, mentor peers, and communicate infrastructure tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.
  • Hands-on experience managing and securing cloud infrastructure, with AWS required; Fly.io or similar is a plus.
  • Production experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Deep PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning.
  • Strong experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions is preferred.
  • Proficiency in modern, type-safe languages; Go is strongly preferred.
  • Experience building and operating production logging, tracing, and metrics systems.
  • Prior experience shipping ML infrastructure into production, beyond experimentation.
  • Early-stage startup experience and the ability to move quickly while maintaining reliability and security.
  • A security-minded approach that incorporates threat modeling into system design.

Benefits

  • Remote-first role for candidates working anywhere in the United States.
  • Flexible schedules with the ability to work in the candidate’s own time zone.
  • Quarterly in-person team off-sites with travel support.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Meaningful equity ownership.
  • New computer hardware and equipment.
  • Inclusive environment with autonomy, collaboration, and regular in-person connection.

Tech Stack

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Nametag

11-50 employees

Nametag builds enterprise identity verification and authentication tools for secure onboarding, helpdesk verification, and self-service account recovery to prevent social engineering and deepfake impersonation. The privately held company, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Seattle, sells through software integrations and ready-to-use workflows. Its platform is used across industries including healthcare, insurance, financial services, higher education, and software.

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