Engine is the modern travel platform for booking and managing work trips. It saves businesses time and money through an intuitive travel network that connects to nearly every hotel, airline, and car rental company in the U.S. It offers single invoice billing, the flexibility to modify trips at any time without sunk costs, and a unified view of all company travel and spend. Customers rely on Engine to not only make travel easier to manage, but to make it enjoyable for everyone involved. The company is backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, Elefund and Permira. Learn more at www.engine.com.
Your Mission:
The Engine Infrastructure and Security (InfraSec) group is working to provide a cloud ecosystem where building new services and environments is automatic and economical for the business, and creates leverage, velocity, and quality for our engineers. As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will be the force multiplier that helps build the technical roadmap, sets the overall architectural direction, solves the most difficult problems, and provides technical guidance to the InfraSec engineering team. You will be responsible for defining how we standardize, automate, and deliver the next generation of cloud environments, infrastructure, build/deploy, and ecosystem services.
What You’ll Bring to Engine:We’re looking for someone who’s ready to make an impact and grow alongside us:
- Experience: 12+ years of hands-on experience in designing and building scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure and systems. Deep expertise in cloud environments and services, particularly AWS. Proven ability to define and drive technical direction across teams, navigate technical and business ambiguity, and develop a compelling roadmap. Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts, align stakeholders, and secure buy-in from leadership and partners. Experience leading and executing large-scale infrasec initiatives in complex technical ecosystems, ensuring long-term scalability, resilience, and efficiency.
- Technical Skillset:
- Infrastructure as Code: Mastery of Terraform, as well as multiple declarative and imperative frameworks (ex: Cloudformation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Pulumi)
- Containerization: Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Observability: Expertise in logging, monitoring, metrics, and alerting systems
- Configuration Management & Service Discovery: Deep understanding of data organization, partitioning, storage and retrieval, fault tolerance, and leveraging effective libraries for automation and orchestration
- CI/CD: Proficiency in tools and architectures for build, deploy, and artifact management
- Security & Compliance: Experience with security systems, data governance, and compliance frameworks.
Mindset: Strategic thinker who thrives in ambiguous environments and can define a clear technical vision. Collaborative leader who can communicate technical concepts effectively to stakeholders. Passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure with a continuous improvement mindset. A hands-on technical leader who thrives on driving teams through complex challenges and delivering impactful results.
Cash compensation: The base salary range for this role is $220,000 to $250,000. Final compensation packages are determined by various factors, including prior experience and expertise. This role is also eligible to receive equity compensation.
The Engine Edge: Perks & CompensationWe believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:
- Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
- Benefits: Check out our full list atengine.com/culture.
- Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more.
Ready to Build the Future of Work Travel?Join us on our mission to transform how work travel works—for businesses, for travelers, and for the industry. Apply now and let’s make travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable—together.
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