# Sr. Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Very Good Security

- Company: Very Good Security
- What the company does: Integrate VGS into your technology stack to streamline payment tokenization, with our comprehensive card management platform, network token solutions, account updater, and card attribute management tools. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.verygoodsecurity.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $280K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/verygoodsecurity/5dd25169-ee77-4e17-bb07-ca77ebb04359
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/very-good-security-sr-staff-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the role

As a Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader on our Platform Engineering team. You will architect, scale, and fortify global cloud infrastructure designed to handle mission-critical, high-throughput payments applications with zero downtime. You will take ownership of key platform foundations powering our core payments infrastructure.

## What they're looking for

- Ownership at Scale: 10+ years of experience taking personal ownership of outcomes in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments
- AWS & Infrastructure-as-Code: Advanced proficiency in AWS ecosystems leveraging Terraform to build reproducible environments
- Containerization & Orchestration: Strong, hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows (Flux, Argo, GitHub Actions)
- Automation & Scripting: Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash to automate infrastructure and build operational tools
- Observability Expertise: Deep experience implementing Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry at scale
- Security & Networking Foundations: Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation, viewing security as a fundamental engineering constraint, not an afterthought

Tags: Engineering