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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Current, New York, NY +1

Posted pay

$215K–$295K

a year

Location: New York, NY +1
Work type: Not given
Level: Staff
Experience: 8+ years
Skills in the job text: AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Java
Terraform
Datadog
MongoDB
Posted: 13 days ago
Last check: 40 min ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE

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The role

The Infrastructure team owns the reliability and performance of the platform behind every Current product, from the live application and managed database services to the data stores, pipelines and internal tooling our members and engineers rely on. As a Staff engineer with a backend focus, you will own infrastructure domains that span several squads and work closely with frontend and backend engineers across the company. You will set technical direction and lead the work that keeps the platform fast, resilient and secure.

This is a senior individual contributor role that has a salary range of $215,000 - $295,000. You will have broad influence across engineering without managing a team.

What you will do

Own the stability and performance of our core services and data stores, a domain that spans several squads
Lead our regional resilience work, including multi-region operation and failover
Lead application performance work with frontend and backend engineers: find bottlenecks across services, data stores and the network, and fix them
Plan and run service and database migrations with zero downtime
Own the reliability and performance of the data pipelines that move production data between services and data stores
Improve the shared tooling engineers use to build, deploy and operate services, including agentic tooling that makes this work faster and safer
Lead response to infrastructure incidents and make sure postmortem actions get done
Set technical direction through design reviews and explain tradeoffs clearly to engineers, product partners and leadership
Raise the quality of other engineers' work through design review, pairing and mentoring
Partner with Security and Compliance to meet the standards of a regulated financial services company

What you need

8+ years of software or infrastructure engineering with a backend focus, including at least 3 years owning production infrastructure that multiple teams depend on
You have already led regional resilience projects (multi-region, failover or disaster recovery) and application performance projects in production
You have built and run Java backend services and are comfortable working in Java services and shared libraries
MongoDB in production at scale: performance tuning, indexing, replication, capacity planning and upgrades
Cloud operations on Kubernetes: running production clusters, upgrades, autoscaling and multi-cluster setups. We run GKE, but deep experience on another cloud is welcome
Experience deploying Infrastructure as code, ideally Terraform
You use observability tools (we use Datadog) for metrics, tracing, logging and alerting, and you have used them to lead incident response
Building or operating data pipelines that move production data
Hands-on experience with agentic tooling, such as AI coding agents or MCP servers
Strong communication skills. You write clear RFCs and lead cross-team decisions through influence rather than authority

Nice to have

Application profiling, such as JVM profiling, flame graphs or continuous profiling
Networking within the cloud: VPC design, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS and service mesh
Experience in fintech or regulated financial services, such as SOC 2 or PCI DSS compliance
Cloud security: IAM, workload identity, network policies, pod security and secrets management
A cloud or Kubernetes certification, such as Google Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Solutions Architect or CKA
Experience with Google Cloud, including GKE

Pay and benefits

Competitive salary
Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
401(k) plan
Discretionary performance bonus program
Biannual performance reviews
Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100% for you and your dependents
Flexible time off and paid holidays
Generous parental leave policy
Commuter benefits
Fitness benefits
Healthcare and Dependent care FSA benefit
Employee Assistance Programs focused on mental health
Healthcare advocacy program for all employees
Access to mental health apps
Team building activities
Our modern NYC based office with open floor plan, stocked kitchen, and catered lunches

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Company facts

Money raised: $80MSum of funding rounds on record
Newest round: Series EJun 1, 2026

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Open tech jobs: 15
With posted pay: 93%
Median posted base: $170K–$250K

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This base pay is near the median for staff infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in New York.

Median: $252K a year
Other jobs in the group: 85

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