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About the Role
This is a foundational role for a senior engineer in Authorium's new San Francisco office, focusing on high-bandwidth engineering and product innovation. You will be a primary driver of the technical integrity of the platform, setting the quality bar and shipping features for the company's next phase of expansion.
Responsibilities
- Architect and own complex infrastructure work, including internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment abstractions, and foundational systems.
- Make architectural decisions regarding reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Lead the modularization of platform primitives and shared infrastructure.
- Collaborate in-person with SF engineering leadership to design platform capabilities, resolve incidents, and translate pain points into infrastructure solutions.
- Set the standard for platform reliability through code reviews, SLO definition, and improvements to observability, testing, and deployment safety.
- Utilize AI tools like Cursor and Claude to automate infrastructure toil and define AI-first patterns for platform engineering.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture.
- Proven track record designing and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure, including service meshes, internal tooling, and developer-facing APIs or abstractions.
- Ability to identify platform gaps before they become incidents and partner with engineering teams to address them.
- Deep understanding of security concerns, including secrets management, network policies, IAM models, and supply chain security.
- History of high-quality infrastructure-as-code, runbooks, and a drive to build self-service systems.
- San Francisco based and energized by an in-office collaborative culture (Monday-Thursday).
Skills
- Platform Engineering
- Infrastructure Engineering
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Networking
- Cloud Architecture
- Service Meshes
- Internal Tooling
- Developer-Facing APIs
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Runbooks
- Self-Service Systems
- Secrets Management
- Network Policies
- IAM Models
- Supply Chain Security
- AWS (ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC design, Parameter Store)
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- CDK
- Internal Platforms
- Golden Paths
- Self-Service Deployment Tooling
- Compliance (FedRAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA)
- Observability
- Reliability Engineering
- SLOs/SLAs
- Logging
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Incident Response
- AI Tools (Cursor, Claude)
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- In-office (Monday-Thursday)
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- 6+ years professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- $170,000 - $230,000
Benefits
- Offers equity
- 100% benefits coverage for employee
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible PTO
- Home office stipend
- Comprehensive wellness benefits
- Commuter stipend
About the Company
- Authorium is a GovTech SaaS platform that unifies procurement, grants, and budgeting workflows for state and local governments.
- The platform replaces fragmented spreadsheets and legacy systems with a unified data layer managing billions of dollars in public funds.
- Serves agencies supporting millions of citizens, including major state agencies in California, Florida, and Washington.
- A 43-person company growing 45% YoY with a clear path to profitability.
- Has deep product market fit and is scaling to meet the demands of complex government agencies.