Kikoff
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$307k-$352kDetected 13 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRubyAWSKubernetesCI/CDValuationCommunication
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role
- Your work should improve delivery speed and reliability, reduce cost, and reduce the amount of operational work product teams carry.
- You will have a primary area of depth and enough range to follow production problems across infrastructure boundaries.
- AI is increasing the amount of code and change moving through our systems.
Responsibilities
- With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
- Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
- We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships.
- As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will own high-leverage infrastructure problems from design through production operation and help run infrastructure as a product for Kikoff engineers.
- You will build internal products and paved paths that turn ambiguous problems into durable systems.
- AI is increasing the amount of code and change moving through our systems. You will help build a platform that can absorb that growth without creating more incidents, unsustainable cost, or a team that depends on heroics.
- You will help build a platform that can absorb that growth without creating more incidents, unsustainable cost, or a team that depends on heroics.
- Build and Own Critical Platform Systems
- Design and implement self-service infrastructure on AWS using reusable code and infrastructure-as-code patterns. We use Pulumi, HCL, and TypeScript heavily. The company runs on Ruby.
Nice to have
- Deep experience in one or more of observability, developer productivity, cloud compute, networking, storage, data infrastructure, or security.
- Experience with Pulumi and TypeScript on AWS, including ECS or Fargate, k8s, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, and IAM.
- We do not cut corners when they matter, and we do not over-engineer when they do not.
- We make tradeoffs deliberately.
- A mature team knows the difference between a risk worth taking and one that is not.
- We look at the data, understand the mechanics behind it, and use that evidence to make better decisions.
- We know the company has benefited from timing, circumstance, and the right people showing up.
- A note on applying: We know great candidates sometimes hold back if they don't meet every qualification listed.
Compensation
- $307,000 - $352,000 USD
Company info
- Own the systems you build in production, including reliability, security, capacity, cost, upgrades, incidents, and recovery.
- Give critical services an SLO, actionable alerts, a useful dashboard, a runbook, and a tested recovery path.
- Automate recurring operational work and eliminate failure-prone manual steps rather than allowing them to become permanent processes.
- Work directly with engineers to turn recurring friction into paved paths, self-service tools, and automated workflows that are faster and safer than one-off solutions.
- Measure outcomes for internal customers through adoption, developer feedback, delivery speed, reliability, cost, toil, and on-call load.
- Use the fastest responsible path when a team is blocked, then turn recurring friction into automation or a durable platform capability.
- Set technical direction for ambiguous infrastructure work, then carry it from problem framing and design through implementation, rollout, and production ownership.
- Make clear trade-offs among delivery speed, reliability, security, cost, and long-term operational complexity.
- Partner across Infrastructure, Security, Data, and Product Engineering to build security and compliance controls into normal engineering workflows.
- Review code and designs, challenge weak assumptions, help other engineers make better technical decisions, and uphold high standards for reliability, testing, safe deployments, security, and maintainability.
- Lead through incidents and unfamiliar failure modes, and ensure the system is better after service is restored.
- Create standards, reusable patterns, and durable documentation that improve how teams build, deploy, observe, and operate software.
- 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or software engineering experience, or an equivalent record of Staff-level technical impact.
Equal opportunity
- Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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