Software Engineering Lead – Internal Tooling & Infrastructure (Remote)

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💎 Seniority level: Lead

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🗣️ Languages: English

Requirements:

Demonstrable experience as a software engineer building internal tooling and automation.

Strong programming and scripting skills (e.g., Python, Go, Node.js, Bash).

Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.

Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles and hands-on experience automating security and compliance processes.

Expert-level experience in AWS services and container orchestration (ECS, Docker).

Strong familiarity with GitLab CI/CD, GitOps practices, and automated deployment strategies.

Expert ability to diagnose complex infrastructure and application issues through systematic problem-solving approaches.

Comfortable debugging and tracing through existing codebases and distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain internal tooling and automated solutions to improve developer efficiency, system observability, and reliability.

Lead infrastructure initiatives, including hands-on management and automation of AWS environments (including via Terraform), and GitLab administration, ensuring robust, secure, and efficient systems.

Own technical aspects of security and compliance initiatives, specifically SOC2 compliance tooling, security scanning automation, penetration testing integration, and proactive vulnerability management.

Coach engineering teams in DevSecOps practices, including robust CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics collection to ensure high availability and operational visibility.

Drive adoption of best practices and standards for software development tooling, such as integrated development environments, debugging, local environment setup, dependency management, and build optimizations.

Serve as an escalation point for infrastructure and tooling support, providing deep engineering expertise to diagnose and resolve complex problems, and design internal systems that make support more efficient over time. As the company scales, progressively plan for and build an outsourced L2/L3 support capability to take on routine support work.

Guide and mentor engineering team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical growth, and operational excellence.

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