At Feeld, we are creating a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves. We are building an inclusive, human-centred product and are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer (AWS) to become part of our remote team and our mission to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships.
You'll join our Infrastructure engineers as a hands-on peer, sharing the day-to-day work from your first weeks. Alongside that, you'll help set the direction for how Feeld runs on AWS: defined as code, automated end to end, resilient, and easy for product squads to build on. The aim is for routine work to get lighter for the whole team, so more of its time goes into making the platform better.
To be right for this role, you should have deep, hands-on experience running production systems on AWS with Terraform, a track record of replacing manual operations with automation that others adopt, and the judgement to shape technical direction together with the team you join.
What you will do:
Share the Infrastructure team's day-to-day work from your first weeks (requests, upgrades, daily checks and incidents), and join on-call once it's in place.
Shape the technical direction and standards for our AWS infrastructure with the Infrastructure team, and own the roadmap together.
Design and build Terraform modules and patterns that make the secure, reliable way the easy way for product squads.
Keep our infrastructure fully in code as it grows, including our edge on Cloudflare and AWS, close the remaining gaps, and automate drift detection so the code stays the source of truth.
Evolve how our Terraform is organised and applied (state, environments, module boundaries) as the estate grows, so changes stay small, reviewable and safe to roll out.
Automate operational work, such as database migrations, routine production tasks and daily checks, into pipelines with review and audit trails.
Own database platform operations for PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, including backups we prove by restoring them regularly.
Make AWS service, database and runtime upgrades run with no interruption to Members.
Build a model of how growth affects our AWS costs, set up load testing, and use both to plan capacity ahead of launches.
How you will grow:
Shape the technical direction of a whole platform area alongside the Infrastructure team, with the backing to make significant structural changes.
Shape how every squad builds and ships, through the standards and tooling you create.
Work on infrastructure for a product people trust with deeply personal data, where security and privacy matter to every Member.
Grow your Staff-level influence through design reviews, mentoring and cross-team technical leadership.
Requirements
About you:
You have deep, hands-on experience running production systems on AWS across compute (ECS/Fargate, Lambda), data (RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) and networking, including upgrades without downtime and restores you've actually tested.
You have designed and maintained a large Terraform codebase, including module design, state layout and safe CI/CD for plan and apply.
You are as comfortable doing the routine work as automating it away, and you have replaced manual operations with automation that other engineers actually adopted.
You have shaped technical direction for infrastructure at Staff level or equivalent: you write the design, bring people with you, and make the engineers around you more effective.
You are calm and methodical in incidents, write clearly, and work well in a remote, async team.
Bonus points:
You have designed or run multi-region architectures on AWS.
You have run zero-downtime database upgrades (for example RDS blue/green) or disaster recovery exercises.
You have built load testing, capacity plans or cost models for a growing product, or reduced AWS spend through rightsizing and commitments.
You have managed multi-account AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center as code.
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