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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 15 days Verygoodsecurity's roles stay open a median of 16 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Verygoodsecurity's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Verygoodsecurity
- low 0 stale, 1 reposted of 16 open
- Hiring momentum
- 22 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Verygoodsecurity's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Verygoodsecurity.
About this role
As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer at VGS, you will lead the design, scaling, and fortification of global cloud infrastructure for high-throughput payments applications. Your role involves building automated, resilient systems, implementing observability practices, and collaborating with various teams to enhance engineering velocity and customer experience. You will take ownership of complex distributed system challenges and drive modern Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices within a multi-region AWS environment.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Verygoodsecurity as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ years of experience in complex, large-scale distributed systems within mission-critical environments
- Strong proficiency in AWS ecosystems leveraging Terraform
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or Bash
- Experience implementing and maintaining Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation
Nice to have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
- BA/BS degree
- A knack for out-of-the-box thinking in a fast-paced startup environment
- Experience managing distributed data streaming platforms like Kafka (MSK)
- Database performance tuning and query optimization skills
Worth weighing
- No salary listed
- Focus on high agency and ownership may require a proactive mindset
- The role emphasizes complex distributed systems which may involve challenging problem-solving
- The environment is described as fast-paced, which may not suit everyone
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Listed by Verygoodsecurity on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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