Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Fingerprint4 hours ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Base Salary
$152k - $205k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own infrastructure products or subsystems end to end, including design, delivery, operation, and production accountability.
- Define project goals, success metrics, technical designs, and risk mitigation plans.
- Build secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-efficient infrastructure for varied applications and workloads.
- Develop software and developer-facing tooling that improves engineering productivity and reduces toil.
- Manage infrastructure through Terraform and configuration patterns aligned with service architecture.
- Partner with product engineering teams to design services for scale and resolve ambiguous requirements.
- Participate in incident response, systematic debugging, monitoring improvements, and performance optimization.
- Apply security practices to personal work and peer reviews, including identifying vulnerabilities.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design feedback.
- Lead cross-team collaboration and facilitate technical and process discussions with stakeholders.
Requirements
- 6–10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering in primarily cloud-based environments, with AWS preferred.
- Demonstrated ownership of significant products or subsystems through design, delivery, operation, and ongoing accountability.
- Strong hands-on experience managing infrastructure through Terraform or an equivalent tool.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure fundamentals, including networking, load balancing, containerization, EKS/Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
- Production-ready programming skills in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
- Hands-on production experience operating Redis/ElastiCache, including cluster and shard management, failover, memory eviction policies, and scaling strategies.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry, along with performance tuning and incident management.
- Fluency with software engineering practices including source control, code review, comprehensive testing, and safe deployment.
- Demonstrated autonomy, ownership, and ability to work with ambiguous requirements.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills for technical designs, reviews, and stakeholder updates.
Benefits
- 100% remote work arrangement with the ability to join from almost any country, subject to regulatory and security restrictions.
- US-based employees receive a cash compensation range of $152,000–$205,000.
- Fingerprint does not sponsor visas; team members must be authorized to work from their home location.
- Inclusive workplace focused on respecting, valuing, and empowering employees from diverse backgrounds.
About Fingerprint
Fingerprint builds a device intelligence platform and APIs that help fraud, risk, and security teams identify users, bots, and risky activity in real time. The company offers commercial SaaS for device fingerprinting and fraud prevention, alongside the open-source FingerprintJS project used by developers. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Chicago, it is privately held and counts customers such as Dropbox, Booking.com, and Plaid.