# Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Headway

- Company: Headway
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, a16z and GV.
- Company website: https://headway.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $183K to $279K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-02
- Apply by: 2026-11-16
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/headway/68970a75-e57d-4092-840b-a84dc9f167a5?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/headway-senior-software-engineer-infrastructure/

## About the role

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 be on the Infrastructure team, which owns the cloud platform Headway runs on. You will be the senior engineer driving 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 5 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

Tags: All Cost Centers

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/headway-senior-software-engineer-infrastructure/