Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
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Check TechnologiesFinTech
USFull-TimeStaff
Salary180,000 - 247,500 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPostgreSQLPythonDjangoTypeScriptReactCI/CDTerraformGitHub
Requirements
- Experience working in startup environments where engineers own infrastructure as well as product systems.
- Experience designing and operating complex systems that have scaled or evolved significantly over time.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Docker, and modern CI/CD systems.
- Strong systems design skills and a track record of building reliable, maintainable services.
- Comfort debugging complex production issues and improving systems through thoughtful simplification.
- Proficiency in Python (experience with TypeScript or React is a plus).
- Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous technical problems and help teams align on practical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the systems that power every payroll run, the infrastructure responsible for moving money, calculating taxes, and ensuring payroll runs reliably at scale.
- Run at scaling and reliability challenges across our platform, improving how systems behave as our partners and payroll volumes grow.
- Simplify infrastructure and architecture over time by identifying bottlenecks, reducing operational complexity, and making systems easier for engineers to reason about.
- Improve how engineers build and ship software by strengthening CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling across the platform.
- Take ownership of key technical outcomes from initial design through production rollout and ongoing operation.
- Work with leaders during company planning cycles to discuss technical improvements we need to make.
- Partner closely with product and engineering teams to deliver technical solutions that unlock new product capabilities.
- Work in the open by sharing context, writing clear technical proposals, and helping teams align around thoughtful solutions.
- Raise the engineering bar by mentoring teammates, sharing knowledge, and helping the team build systems we’re proud to operate.
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