About the company
At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, with changes managed through code rather than manual configuration.
- Improve the speed, reliability, and usability of Spacelift workflows used by engineering teams across Gusto.
- Partner with application and infrastructure teams to migrate production services into a modern AWS multi-account architecture.
- Strengthen disaster recovery and compliance readiness by implementing and testing infrastructure resilience.
- Refactor infrastructure code into modular, reusable components.
- Support engineering teams with cloud infrastructure needs, troubleshooting, and vendor integrations.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools to accelerate infrastructure development.
- Participate in an on-call rotation focused on internal engineering support.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering.
- Deep, production-level AWS expertise across compute, networking, identity, and security primitives.
- Demonstrated mastery of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu strongly preferred; Crossplane, CloudFormation, or similar) including module design, state management, and scalable patterns for large teams.
- Experience with multi-account AWS governance — AWS Organizations, OU design, SCPs/RCPs, and federated identity via IAM Identity Center or equivalent SSO.
- Hands-on experience with a managed IaC orchestration platform (Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, etc.).
- Experience operating production infrastructure for a customer-facing SaaS platform, including observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) and participating in incident response.
- Track record of driving multi-quarter infrastructure initiatives to completion with minimal direction.
Conditions
- Cash compensation: 163,000–204,000 in Denver, and 197,000–247,000 for San Francisco & New York.
- Stock equity is additional.
- Hybrid work: employees based in Denver, San Francisco, and New York are expected to work from the office approximately 2-3 days per week.
- Travel to Gusto's office for onboarding is required.