Infrastructure Engineer at Forage in San Francisco, CA

Job description

What we are looking for: As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll own the key services and processes that Forage is built on, and will help set the direction for future growth and investments. Beyond cloud services and CI/CD, you’ll contribute to developer experience, our incident response processes, load testing, and other critical functions. Day to day, you’ll spot weak points before they turn into outages, fine-tune databases to keep them fast under load, and put guardrails in place so product engineers can ship quickly. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on infrastructure/DevOps/SRE work. Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g. Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation). Practice preparing systems for production use — come with experience implementing monitoring, autoscaling, and security concerns in live services. Proven track record of owning complex systems — e.g. containerized deployments using cloud databases. Strong, remote-first, communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. Nice to have: prior experience in fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments. Key Responsibilities: Own Critical Services: Be responsible for critical services that power our applications, such as the compute and data storage layers powering Forage's payments processing and consumer app API systems. Manage CI/CD: Help manage, improve and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, focusing on speed and reliability. Improve Incident Response: Help our team reduce noisy alerting by tuning monitor sensitivity and expanding the self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities of our systems. Plan and organize activities to test and evolve how we respond to outages. Enhance Developer Experience: Build for both engineers and non-engineers, expanding who can, and wants to, contribute code changes with the adoption of AI agent-led development. Our Offer: This role is Hybrid in San Francisco, we define hybrid as 2-3 days in office. We will consider remote within North America on a case-by-case basis. Your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation. Expected salary range: $160,000 – $180,000 USD base salary Meaningful equity Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society. 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents. Enjoy regular team lunches at our San Francisco offices, fostering collaboration and connection over great food. A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership. A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.