Career Mentors, LLC

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

New York City, New York, United States · Staff+ · Full-time

No sponsorship$190k-$220kDetected 131 days ago

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About the role

Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure) Location: New York, NY (Full-time, on-site 5 days/week) Compensation: $190,000 – $220,000 base + competitive equity Hiring: 1 candidate ASAP The Role Own self-hosted deployments for sensitive federal and defense customers. This high-ownership infrastructure role begins hands-on — managing deployments across
cloud to fully air-gapped on-prem environments, providing compliance guidance, and performing deep debugging — and evolves into building automation, tools, and broader platform-level infrastructure to support efficient scaling for enterprise clients. Key Responsibilities Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure for large customers in federal/defense spaces

Develop automation, playbooks, and tools to transition from manual operations to scalable multi-customer support.
This high-ownership infrastructure role begins hands-on - managing deployments across cloud to fully air-gapped on-prem environments, providing compliance guidance, and performing deep debugging - and evolves into building automation, tools, and broader platform-level infrastructure to support efficient scaling for enterprise clients.
Adapt, own, and maintain infrastructure for large customers in federal/defense spaces across heterogeneous environments.
Serve as a forward-deployed engineer, including potential on-site support for classified deployments.
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Harden and continuously evaluate security configurations in self-hosted setups.
Contribute directly to the product codebase to improve deployability, security, observability, and reliability.
Debug complex technical issues in novel or limited-access environments and enhance observability for future efficiency.
Participate in an on-call rotation to handle software updates, migrations, network changes, and production incidents.
3+ years of experience in infrastructure software engineering.
Demonstrated ownership of production Kubernetes clusters (through professional work, research, or substantial personal projects).
On-call experience debugging complex production system failures.
Startup background preferred (ideally Series B/C stage)

$190,000 - $220,000 base + competitive equity Hiring: 1 candidate ASAP The Role Own self-hosted deployments for sensitive federal and defense customers.

Guide customers in establishing and implementing compliant architectures, navigating strict security and operational requirements (FedRAMP Moderate equivalent, CMMC, NIST SP 800-53, IL-5/6).

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