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LAYIQ - Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Tabs, New York, NY

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
Partner with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable systems
Write production-quality code and automation to reduce toil and lower operational risk, so repeated problems get solved once
Mentor engineers and influence best practices across teams
Who You Are
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
Experience
8+ years in software engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles
Experience in one or more modern languages such as TypeScript 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
Expertise with infrastructure as code using Terraform, and ownership of Docker and Git workflows in production
Solid working knowledge of Kubernetes and Helm
Experience designing and running CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, including build parallelization and developer experience improvements
Deep experience with observability tooling across metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting, including defining SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Expertise operating distributed systems in production at scale, with an implementation-level understanding of messaging systems, partitioning, deploy strategies, and failure modes
A track record of leading high-severity incidents, debugging live production issues from logs and data, and running blameless postmortems
Experience proposing and evaluating multiple architectures, making trade-offs that fit the company's stage, and driving infrastructure decisions across teams
Experience across more than one architecture or company environment, ideally including both larger companies and high-growth startups
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and setting direction in a fast-moving environment
Experience mentoring engineers and shaping infrastructure practices across an engineering org
Nice to Have
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 Prisma expertise
This role is based onsite in our Soho office in New York City

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