# Staff Software 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: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-18
- Apply by: 2026-11-02
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/verygoodsecurity/c4f0ea82-6183-430b-9ca7-c5ca5d7d34d0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/very-good-security-staff-software-engineer/

## About the role

We’re building payment infrastructure for a world where AI agents don’t just recommend, search, and summarize. They transact. The Agentic API is creating the secure backend layer that enables trusted agents to initiate purchases, operate within user-approved mandates, retrieve scoped payment credentials, and complete transactions without exposing raw card data.

## 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 to automate infrastructure and build operational tools
- Observability Expertise: 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