[Hiring] Infrastructure Engineer @Future

Role Description

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the cloud platform that powers our product. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll design, build, and operate the foundational infrastructure our engineering teams depend on every day.

You’ll work across cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, observability, and cost optimization — partnering closely with backend and platform engineers to keep our systems reliable, secure, and efficient. You’ll establish best practices that scale with the team and ensure we’re getting the most out of every dollar we spend on cloud resources.

The ideal candidate is passionate about building resilient systems on AWS. You think in terms of automation, reliability, and operational excellence — not just getting things running, but keeping them running well. You care about security, cost efficiency, and developer experience. Most importantly, you’re motivated by enabling other engineers to ship faster and more confidently.

What You’ll Do

• Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code best practices using AWS CDK, ensuring all cloud resources are version-controlled, repeatable, and peer-reviewed.
• Architect and manage AWS infrastructure including ECS, RDS Aurora, API Gateway, S3, and networking — optimizing for reliability, performance, and cost.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive observability stack: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics dashboards, and alerting using Datadog.
• Establish and run on-call processes, incident response playbooks, and post-mortem practices that improve system resilience over time.
• Optimize RDS Aurora and ECS resources for performance, availability, and cost — right-sizing instances, tuning queries, and managing scaling policies.
• Own cloud spend management: implement tagging strategies, cost allocation, budgets, and regular reviews to keep infrastructure costs accountable.
• Harden cloud security posture: manage IAM policies, network segmentation, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance controls.
• Improve developer experience by streamlining CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and local development tooling.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS services in production: ECS, RDS Aurora, S3, API Gateway, IAM, VPC networking, and related services.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly AWS CDK (Golang).
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring: Datadog (or similar platforms like Grafana, New Relic), structured logging, distributed tracing, and alerting.
• Solid understanding of relational databases in production: query optimization, connection management, replication, failover, and backup strategies for Aurora/PostgreSQL.
• Experience managing containerized workloads: ECS, container image pipelines, service discovery, and scaling.
• Comfortable with Golang — enough to read, debug, and contribute to backend services when needed.
• Strong grasp of cloud security fundamentals: least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with on-call rotations, incident management, and building runbooks that reduce mean time to resolution.
• Clear communication: you’ll work directly with backend, platform, and product engineers to translate infrastructure needs into reliable solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with cost optimization tools and practices: AWS Cost Explorer, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, or third-party FinOps platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to service mesh, API gateways, or advanced networking patterns.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling.
• Background in SOC 2, HIPAA, or other compliance frameworks as they relate to cloud infrastructure.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $200,000–$250,000/year + equity.
• Equity participation offered alongside base compensation.
• Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance plus tax savings accounts for all eligible employees.
• 401(k) plan with tax-advantaged savings options.
• Remote-First: Employment eligible to all employees located anywhere in the continental US. No travel required.
• Monthly health and fitness stipend contributing to overall wellbeing, access to a mental health platform, reimbursement for medical travel, and an annual learning & development stipend.
• Flexible PTO so you can rest, recharge, and take care of life outside of work.
• Enjoy our platform for free!

Company Description

Future is a diverse, passionate, and driven team. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds.