Tabs Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Tabs owning AWS environment, software shipping, and monitoring systems. Responsible for infrastructure direction, CI/CD, observability, and incident response.
Responsibilities
We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the foundation Tabs runs on: our AWS environment, how we ship software, and how we know when something is wrong. You'll set infrastructure direction for the company as a hands-on individual contributor, partnering with our platform team, our product engineers, and the product teams who build on what you build.
Tabs is building, not maintaining. We're at the point where infrastructure is becoming a real investment area, and the decisions made in this seat will shape how the whole engineering org ships for years. Payments, billing, and revenue for high-growth companies come with real compliance requirements. The goal is to build it correctly, keep it easy to maintain, and evolve it as we grow.
This is not a corner seat. You'll be expected to shape engineering and product decisions, and you'll have engineering leadership that understands infrastructure work and will pressure-test your calls. You won't be working alone: you'll own the outcomes, with high-caliber engineers around you.
AWS infrastructure direction and platform evolution, including the migration from ECS/Fargate toward a more modern, scalable platform
Infrastructure as code and container foundations, with Terraform and Docker at the core
CI/CD systems with a strong emphasis on developer experience, safety, and automation (GitHub Actions today; maturing CD tomorrow)
Ephemeral environments and preview deploys to speed iteration and increase confidence in changes
Observability standards across metrics, logs, and tracing, including alert hygiene, dashboards, and SLO development
Incident response, on-call, postmortems, and the reliability culture that surrounds them
Define and evolve reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Improve observability, alerting, and incident processes across services
Lead high-severity incidents hands-on and drive clear, actionable follow-ups
Qualification
You're a software engineer firstYou think in systems8+ years in software engineeringAdditional Information
Required
You're a software engineer first, and your infrastructure expertise is built on that foundation
You've run production systems on AWS and can lead platform-level change
You think in systems: risk, rollback strategy, blast radius, and feedback loops
You treat CI/CD and environments as products that should be fast, reliable, and self-serve
You dig into logs and data yourself when something breaks, especially under pressure
You influence through trust and clarity rather than control
You balance pragmatism with long-term system health
You value learning from failure and improving processes over assigning blame
You communicate clearly and work well across teams
8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles
Experience in one or more modern languages such as TypeScript, Python, or Rust with a track record of writing production-quality scripts, tools, and services, and still hands-on today
Deep hands-on experience running production workloads on AWS, including container platforms such as ECS/Fargate
Preferred
Experience owning broad infrastructure surface area at a high-growth startup, including as the primary infrastructure or SRE owner
Experience operating Kafka or a similar distributed messaging system at scale
Experience building developer tooling that engineers adopt and rely on
Additional Information
This role is based onsite in our Soho office in New York City
