Infrastructure Engineer
Forage
- Location
- Hybrid (San Francisco-HQ, California)
- Compensation
- $160k - $180k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
Forage is a mission-driven payments company empowering merchants to serve underserved communities by enabling government benefit acceptance. The Infrastructure Engineer role focuses on owning critical compute and data services, evolving CI/CD pipelines, and enhancing developer experience to support rapid, reliable growth.
Skills
Infrastructure engineering
DevOps
SRE
AWS
Terraform
CDK
Pulumi
CloudFormation
CI/CD
Monitoring
Autoscaling
Security
Containerized deployments
Database management
Incident response
Load testing
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
Perks
- Hybrid Work
- Equity
- Team lunches
Full job details
What we are looking for:
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll own the key services and processes that Forage is built on, and will help set the direction for future growth and investments. Beyond cloud services and CI/CD, you’ll contribute to developer experience, our incident response processes, load testing, and other critical functions. Day to day, you’ll spot weak points before they turn into outages, fine-tune databases to keep them fast under load, and put guardrails in place so product engineers can ship quickly.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on infrastructure/DevOps/SRE work.
- Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g. Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
- Practice preparing systems for production use — come with experience implementing monitoring, autoscaling, and security concerns in live services.
- Proven track record of owning complex systems — e.g. containerized deployments using cloud databases.
- Strong, remote-first, communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
- Nice to have: prior experience in fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own Critical Services: Be responsible for critical services that power our applications, such as the compute and data storage layers powering Forage's payments processing and consumer app API systems.
- Manage CI/CD: Help manage, improve and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, focusing on speed and reliability.
- Improve Incident Response: Help our team reduce noisy alerting by tuning monitor sensitivity and expanding the self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities of our systems. Plan and organize activities to test and evolve how we respond to outages.
- Enhance Developer Experience: Build for both engineers and non-engineers, expanding who can, and wants to, contribute code changes with the adoption of AI agent-led development.
Our Offer:
This role is Hybrid in San Francisco, we define hybrid as 2-3 days in office. We will consider remote within North America on a case-by-case basis.
Your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.
- Expected salary range: $160,000 – $180,000 USD base salary
- Meaningful equity
- Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
- 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents.
- Enjoy regular team lunches at our San Francisco offices, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
- A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
- A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.