Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Hi, we're The Browser Company 👋 and we're building a better way to use the internet.

Browsers are unique in that they are one of the only pieces of software that you share with your parents as well as your kids. Which makes sense, they're our doorway to the most important things — through them we socialize with loved ones, work on our passion projects, and explore our curiosities. But on their own, they don’t actually do a whole lot, they’re kind of just there. They don’t help us organize our messy lives or make it easier to compose our ideas. We believe that the browser could do so much more — it can empower and support the amazing things we do on the internet. That’s why we’re building one: a browser that can help us grow, create, and stay curious.

To accomplish this lofty task, we’re building a diverse team of people from different backgrounds and experiences. This isn’t optional, it’s crucial to our mission, as we need a wide range of perspectives to challenge our assumptions and shape our browser through a bold, creative lens. With that in mind, we especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.

As a Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure on the Developer Experience team, you’ll enhance engineering productivity by improving our CI/CD pipelines and find creative ways to improve build and PR validation times. We’re multi-cloud from the start (AWS, GCP and Azure)! You’ll help us plan ahead for scale and speed whether that means building our own data center or parallelizing build tasks while we build a native Swift app on Mac and Windows.

Overall you will...

• Scope and spearhead technical projects across our Windows, Mac, iOS, Chromium, and Swift toolchain builds related to our cloud and build infrastructure

• Manage and deploy new hardware and software for CI systems.

• Build observability and monitoring into our infrastructure

• Monitor and optimize our CI/CD pipelines to ensure engineers stay productive

• Build and maintain our AWS, GCP, and Azure infrastructure using Terraform

• Improve the deployment and management of our Tailscale VPN

• Identify opportunities to iterate on our architecture to improve efficiency, developer productivity, and reduce cost

After 1 month you will...

• Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy.

• Attend a number of onboarding presentations on our product journey, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more.

• Get familiar with our use of Terraform, Ansible, AWS, GCP, Azure, DataDog, GitHub Actions, and other tools.

• Have shipped a few fixes and infrastructure adjustments

After 3 months you will be...

• Working with our product and infrastructure teams to adapt our machine fleet to the needs of our product and infrastructure team

• Adding monitoring to our infrastructure to manage uptime and costs

• Engaged in architecture, code review, code style, and other important discussions.

• Contributing to improvements to our infrastructure that may include simplifications, clarifications, and increased developer productivity.

• Providing consistent feedback in the appropriate product specific #dogfooding channels

After 6 months you will be...

• Engaging with our security engineers to improve security of our infrastructure.

• Trained as an interviewer and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

• Deploying improvements to our infrastructure via Terraform and other appropriate tools.

• Leading projects from conception to production launch

• Mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase

• 6+ years of experience leading critical projects or initiatives within large, complex infrastructure.

• Proficiency in a programming language like Python, Go, C++, etc.

• Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure, with significant expertise in at least one of these.

• Experience setting up monitoring and observability for cloud infrastructure and using these tools to deliver improvements.

• Mastery of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.

• You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable.

• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles.

• We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone.

💰 With our flexible compensation model, employees have the ability to choose the cash-to-equity ratio that best suits their individual needs. Every offer we extend includes three options: a salary-optimized offer, an equity-optimized offer, and a balanced offer.

The annual salary range for this role is $225,000-275,000 USD. The actual salary range offered will vary based on experience level and interview performance.

🧘🏻‍♀️ In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we provide every employee with the following benefits:

• comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision. We cover 100% of premiums for employees, 90% for dependents

• 401k plan

• flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

• remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 USD home office stipend

• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate

The Browser Company is a well-funded, ambitious startup of about 85 people (and growing!) who are passionate about building great products. We are a remote-first, distributed team, with the option to work in office in New York. We strongly support diversity and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. 

🚙 To read more about what we value as a company, check out Notes on Roadtrips on our blog.