Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

Your way to impact  

The services managed by this team are instrumental in guaranteeing high availability for the Braintree products merchants use to process payments and beyond. We are constantly thinking about optimization, scalability, and stability.  

Your day to day  

In your day-to-day role you will: 

• Pair with engineers inside and outside the team to build and improve our services.  

• Collaborate, communicate and integrate with multiple engineering teams.  

• Develop a high-level view of the functions, usages, and needs of all of Braintree’s external APIs, and use this to drive architecture decisions.  

• Trace bugs and errors through multiple systems, including ones you don’t own, sometimes on behalf of customer-facing teammates.  

• Drive team discussions on technical strategy, system architecture, and component design.  

• Participate in all stages of the software development cycle, including design and development of significant new architectural systems and improvements.  

• Develop and maintain technical documentation.  

• Participate in 24/7 on-call team rotation of the services we own.  

What do you need to bring-  

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development or DevOps experience.  

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.  

• Comfortable on the Unix command line.  

• Proficient in at least one shell scripting language (e.g. bash).  

Preferred: 

• Familiarity with at least one system of infrastructure code tooling or configuration management system (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet, Ansible, etc).  

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.  

• Excellent skills in complex technical problem-solving.  

Nice to Have:  

• Experience running a network edge system at scale.  

• Experience with AWS services – NLB, ALB, Route53, Elastic IP, EC2, etc.  

• Experience with Kubernetes.  

• Experience working in a large engineering environment, coordinating across multiple teams, and leading organization-wide projects.  

• Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences.  

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