Staff Infrastructure and Performance Engineer
NashLast-mile delivery company
San Francisco, United StatesLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Y Combinator
Rackhouse Venture Capital
640 Oxford Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Own and evolve Nash's core infrastructure performance and reliability.
- •As a Staff Infrastructure Performance & Engineer, you will own and evolve the performance, reliability, and scalability of Nash’s core infrastructure.
- •You’ll work directly with the Engineering Leadership team, platform, and product engineering teams to design and operate low-latency, business-critical systems that power real-time logistics for some of the largest retailers in the world.
- •Key Responsibilities Own infrastructure performance and reliability across Nash’s production systems, with a focus on low latency, high throughput, and predictable behavior under load.
- •Design, build, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure, leveraging managed services with a strong emphasis on ECS/Fargate.
- •Lead Postgres performance engineering, including query optimization, indexing strategies, connection management, replication, cluster design, and failover.
- •Architect and operate multi-region, highly availability systems with strong resiliency, disaster recovery, and failover guarantees.
- •Design and evolve enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines that support safe, repeatable, and fast deployments across environments and regions.
- •Requirements 6+ years of experience building and operating high-scale, production infrastructure for business-critical systems.
- •Deep expertise in AWS, including networking, compute, storage, and managed services.
- •Hands-on experience running production workloads on ECS/Fargate at scale.
- •Strong background in PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, replication, high availability, and operational excellence.
- •Proven experience designing and operating multi-region architectures with strict uptime and reliability requirements.
Required skills
AWSECSPostgreSQLCI/CDKubernetesDocker
Domain expertise
logistics
Benefits & perks
Competitive compensation, Equity, Health, dental, and vision insurance, Flexible paid time off
Tech stack
AWSECSPostgreSQLCI/CDKubernetesDocker