Hiring: Member of Technical Staff (Infrastructure) Company: Footprint Location: New York City Metropolitan Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:31:03 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Aurora, CI/CD, CloudFront, Datadog, ECS, Fargate, GitHub Actions, IAM, LLM, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL, Pulumi, REST, Rust, Serverless, Terraform About the job Experience: •4+ years operating production infrastructure on a major cloud - provisioning, deploying, and debugging real systems under load Required Skills: •For four years, Footprint's infrastructure had one job: run identity verifications fast, correctly, and always. A verification is a bounded request. It arrives, it resolves, it returns. •Our backend engineers built all of it while also shipping product, and they've kept it up. Agent infrastructure has become a full-time problem, and nobody here has it as a full-time job. That's this role. •You'll report directly to Head of Engineering - Elliott Forde. •Agent compute. Percy's agents run in sandboxed, isolated environments, spawning sub-agents and executing code against regulated customer data. You own how that compute gets provisioned, deployed, isolated, and scaled, and how quickly an engineer can safely ship a change to it •Observability across Rust services and AI agents. Define how we measure reliability, latency, and cost, including what a single agent run costs us to complete. Today, tracing a slow investigation end to end is harder than it should be. Make production legible enough that any engineer can debug it •CI/CD and per-PR ephemeral environments. Every engineer here depends on the path from commit to production and on getting a real environment for every pull request. You own both, along with the merge queue, code review tooling, and a testing strategy the team can rely on •Build versus buy. Task scheduling is the live one and it's your call. That question arrives again every time we scale, and you're the person with the context to answer it well •Developer experience as a product. Your users are Footprint engineers. Invest in the tooling, feedback loops, and paved paths that make them faster Qualifications: •Security-minded infrastructure experience: secrets management, network isolation, least-privilege IAM. We're a company built on detecting and stopping financial crime, so this counts for a lot here •You own a slice of our infrastructure and you've fixed a bottleneck the team actually feels - faster agent deploys, ephemeral environments people trust, or an observability gap that now lets on-call trace a slow agent run end to end. Infrastructure decisions get routed to you. •You lead infrastructure at Footprint. Agent compute is fast, isolated, and observable. We have real reliability, latency, and cost-per-run numbers. Engineers trust CI/CD. You've made a defensible build-versus-buy call on task scheduling, and the backend team ships faster because infrastructure is off their plate. •Massive impact, fast: You'll work on projects that shape company direction, not analysis that gets shelved. •Own meaningful work: From day one, you'll have direct ownership over strategic initiatives that drive the business forward. •Real growth opportunity: Promotion timelines depend on performance: the harder you work, the quicker you'll get promoted. •Winning team and culture: We're a fast-moving, no-BS team that likes to win (and have fun doing it). Compensation: •$180,000 - $260,000 / year •💰 Generous compensation and equity packages Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!