Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Architect and own the cloud platform that every engineer at Headway deploys on. Make deploys boring, scaling automatic, infrastructure self-serve, and cost attributable. You will own the cloud platform Headway runs on. You will lead the work to isolate blast radius, make autoscaling trustworthy, and build a self-serve infrastructure platform so that the Infrastructure Engineering team focuses on the strategic and unusual, not the routine. You will serve as the technical anchor for Headway's compute, networking, and deployment platform, and bring Staff-level influence to an area that every engineer depends on daily.

Responsibilities

Architect and own the cloud platform that every engineer at Headway deploys on; Make deploys boring, scaling automatic, infrastructure self-serve, and cost attributable; Deployment architecture and blast-radius containment; Container footprint and networking; Capacity and scaling; Self-serve infrastructure platform; Cloud cost attribution and controls; Python runtime and dependency health

Requirements

8 or more years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles at companies running significant production traffic; Deep AWS expertise and production ownership of compute and networking at scale (ECS, EKS, RDS, networking, IAM); Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, particularly Terraform, including designing self-serve platforms for other engineering teams; Hands-on autoscaling and capacity engineering, and container orchestration with ECS and/or EKS; Track record making deploys safe and self-serve for other teams, not just your own; Staff-level influence: you drive decisions across team boundaries and raise the infrastructure bar org-wide without requiring management authority to do it

Nice to have

FinOps and cloud cost optimization experience; Kubernetes and EKS depth; Observability tooling at scale (Datadog); Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments; Experience with event driven systems