Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Automation

Early Warning Services

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Scottsdale, AZChicago, ILSan Francisco, CANew York, NY
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Full-time
Posted
56 days ago
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About Early Warning Services

Early Warning Services is a fintech company that operates the Zelle person-to-person payments network, the Paze digital checkout wallet, and Certos fraud prevention and identity risk solutions for financial institutions.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Automation

The Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Automation is a senior hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, building, and improving infrastructure-as-code capabilities. Working within the infrastructure automation space, this role involves developing shared Terraform and Ansible tooling, reusable modules, and policy-as-code guardrails to manage cloud and on-premises environments. You will apply software engineering discipline to treat infrastructure as versioned products, ensuring automated regression coverage and secure configuration. Key technologies include Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, and Go, alongside tools like Terratest and tflint. The role solves complex problems regarding secure, reliable, and controlled infrastructure changes while mapping automation controls to regulatory requirements like PCI DSS and SOX. You will also develop self-service tooling and APIs to improve the developer experience across the organization.

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What you'll do

  • Design and build infrastructure-as-code capabilities using Terraform and Ansible to manage cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Develop opinionated Terraform modules for AWS services that incorporate security, compliance, and observability by default.
  • Author and maintain policy-as-code to evaluate Terraform plans, Ansible configurations, and Kubernetes admission controls.
  • Create configuration-as-code for network infrastructure including structured generation, pre-change validation, and drift detection.
  • Implement secure authentication patterns such as OIDC-federated roles and dynamic secrets for cloud and database credentials.
  • Map infrastructure automation controls to regulatory requirements like PCI DSS and SOX to automate evidence collection.
  • Develop engineering standards, self-service tooling, and APIs to improve the infrastructure developer experience.
  • Prototype complex automation problems and mentor engineers on design, implementation, and code-review practices.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States.
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field is typically required.
  • Typically eight or more years of related experience in software, cloud, platform, or infrastructure engineering is required.
  • Strong production programming experience in Python, Go, or a comparable general-purpose language is required.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable module development, automated testing, and state management, is required.
  • Experience with Ansible beyond basic playbooks, such as reusable roles or collections, is required.
  • Experience implementing policy-as-code or infrastructure policy controls using OPA/Rego or comparable technologies is required.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS infrastructure and security concepts, including IAM, networking, and encryption, is required.

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