Infrastructure Engineer
Hybrid (San Francisco, United States)$160k - $180k + equityFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Infrastructure Engineer at Forage, focused on owning critical services, CI/CD, incident response, load testing, and developer experience to support payments processing and the consumer app API.
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.
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 — 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.
Skills
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Benefits
- 100% Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents.
- Meaningful equity.
- Hybrid work in San Francisco (2-3 days in office). Remote within North America considered case-by-case.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Forage
Payments infrastructure for government benefits
Forage is a mission-driven payments company that helps businesses accept government benefits through a single, unified API. Today, over 42 million Americans receive government assistance (ex: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) to buy groceries. Starting with enabling EBT SNAP online, Forage builds the financial infrastructure empowering businesses to serve these shoppers online.
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