F2
Engineering, Product, Design (EPD)
StaffSoftwareEngineer,Infrastructure
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“Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at F2. Skills: Cloud infrastructure, Container orchestration, Infrastructure-as-code, AI infrastructure. Architect foundational cloud infrastructure. Implement foundational cloud infrastructure”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale reliably with enterprise demand; Balance latency, throughput, cost; Meet SOC 2 requirements; Foster culture of reliable systems; Foster culture of observable systems; Foster culture of cost-efficient systems
Industry & Context.
Distributed-systems challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years building cloud infrastructure, 7+ years scaling cloud infrastructure, Architecting platforms from ground up, Production experience with ECS/Fargate, Production experience with Kubernetes, Production experience with equivalent orchestration, Terraform fluency, Pulumi fluency, CloudFormation fluency, CI/CD pipeline design, GitOps workflows, Operating Postgres at scale, Operating Redis at scale, Operating message systems at scale, Operating workflow systems at scale, Practical experience with SOC 2, Practical experience with IAM design, Practical experience with VPC architecture, Practical experience with secrets management, Practical experience with multi-tenant data isolation
Nice to Have
GCP experience, Vector databases experience, LLM serving infrastructure experience
What You'll Do.
Architect foundational cloud infrastructure
Implement foundational cloud infrastructure
Write infrastructure-as-code
Ship production systems
Define technical vision
Execute technical vision
Define platform roadmap
Execute platform roadmap
Operate workflow orchestration layer
Scale workflow orchestration layer
Operate streaming pipelines
Scale streaming pipelines
Operate vector search infrastructure
Scale vector search infrastructure
Operate LLM inference
Build infrastructure for SOC 2
Build multi-tenant isolation
Build secrets management
Build least-privilege IAM
Build encrypted data flows
Set standards for IaC
Set standards for deployment pipelines
Set standards for incident response
Set standards for SLOs
Uphold standards for IaC
Uphold standards for deployment pipelines
Uphold standards for incident response
Uphold standards for SLOs
Mentor engineers on systems
Partner with frontend
Partner with enterprise customers
Translate requirements into infrastructure solutions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional collaboration; Partner with product teams; Partner with backend teams; Partner with frontend teams; Partner with enterprise customers
Full Job Description
F2 STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, INFRASTRUCTURE Location: San Francisco Employment Type: Full time Location Type: Hybrid Department: Engineering, Product, Design (EPD) Compensation: $200K – $300K • Offers Equity The total rewards package at F2 includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits. -- The Role: We are seeking a hands-on Infrastructure Tech Lead who thrives in building from 0‑1 and driving execution, directly contributing production-level systems while shaping our core technical foundation. You will collaborate closely with the founding team to architect, deploy, and scale the cloud infrastructure powering F2's AI-driven enterprise analytics platform. What you'll do: - Hands-on platform building. Architect and implement foundational cloud infrastructure from scratch: compute, networking, CI/CD, and observability. Actively writing infrastructure-as-code and shipping production systems, not just diagrams. - Own the infrastructure architecture. Define and execute the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for our AWS-based platform (ECS/Fargate, containerized Python and Node services), ensuring rapid iteration while scaling reliably with enterprise demand. - Run durable, AI-heavy workloads. Operate and scale our workflow orchestration layer (Temporal), streaming pipelines, vector search infrastructure, and high-throughput LLM inference paths; balancing latency, throughput, and cost. - Design for security and compliance. Build infrastructure that meets SOC 2 requirements from day one: multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, least-privilege IAM, audit logging, and encrypted data flows across storage, database, and AI providers. - Establish operational excellence. Set and uphold standards for IaC, deployment pipelines, incident response, SLOs, and on-call practices; mentor engineers to foster a culture of reliable, observable, cost-efficient systems. - Cross-functional collaboration. Partner with product, backend, frontend, and enterprise customers to
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