About the role: The Foundational Infrastructure team provides cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and tools that empower Compass teams to build and deploy products securely, efficiently, and with minimal operational overhead. As a Senior Engineer, you will influence key technology decisions that impact the wider engineering organization. You bring expert-level industry skills, at scale, to Compass in one or more of the Preferred Qualifications below. You are a pragmatic technologist who designs and delivers scalable, resilient systems while fostering collaboration and technical excellence. Beyond execution, you serve as a mentor, guiding a talented team of engineers while driving impactful, high-complexity projects. You lead by example-innovating, teaching, and shaping the future of Compass Engineering. Responsibilities: * Guide technical strategy and mentor engineers on high-impact projects. * Design, develop, automate, and optimize scalable infrastructure solutions. * Maintain and improve platform reliability, scalability, and security. * Manage and monitor infrastructure components and systems. * Provide support for infrastructure-related incidents and internal customer needs. * Partner with customer teams to proactively identify infrastructure needs. * Document and refine infrastructure design and operational practices. Basic Qualifications: * BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience. * 7+ years of software development experience with proficiency in Go, Java, or Python * Experience building and operating large-scale cloud services in AWS (preferred) or GCP * Strong understanding of cloud-native applications and microservice architecture. * Proven ability to influence technical decision-making and execution. Preferred Qualifications: * 4+ years full-time work experience on an infrastructure platform team providing managed services or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to sizeable (200+ engineers) engineering organizations * Led design, development, best practices, observability, tuning, scalability, elasticity, and performance/cost optimization of core infrastructure components * Has a deep understanding of one or more of these domains: * Kubernetes/Compute Infrastructure * Cloud Networking * HAProxy, Istio, Envoy * DNS, BGP, TGW, VPC Peering, ALB, VPN * Edge/CDN networking (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly). * Observability * Monitoring, Alerting, and Visualization: Prometheus, Grafana * Distributed Tracing: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin * Log Aggregation: Loki, Fluentd, Logstash, Graylog * Cloud Resource Management / Infrastructure as Code (IaC) * Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible * CICD automation using GitLab CI, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $131K-$197K annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.