Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
- Salary
- $240K - $280K
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
About Flow
Flow Engineering is an AI-native requirements platform for modern engineering organizations, enabling hardware teams to collaborate with AI agents to design, validate, and evolve complex systems with speed and rigor. After a recent Series A, the team is scaling the product from thousands of users to hundreds of thousands while holding a high bar on reliability and speed.
About the role
Flow is hiring a staff software engineer with an infrastructure focus to build and scale the core platform behind Flow. You will own services and infrastructure that let “agentic systems engineers” and product teams rely on Flow in their day-to-day work.
You will join a small, senior, high-ownership team that values speed, ownership, and strong fundamentals: ship v1s quickly, learn, and iterate.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services and platform primitives that support complex engineering workflows and collaboration at scale.
- Scale Flow from thousands of users to hundreds of thousands, improving performance, reliability, observability, and security across the stack.
- Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, test infrastructure, and internal tooling so the team can ship quickly and safely.
- Collaborate with frontend and AI engineers to define APIs, data models, and integration points that are robust and easy to evolve.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction as the product and customer base grow.
About you
- 3+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS or GCP).
- Strong understanding of systems design, distributed systems, reliability, observability, and security best practices.
- Experience with containerization and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Docker, Terraform, or similar).
- Comfortable owning projects end-to-end in a fast-paced environment and making pragmatic tradeoffs under ambiguity.
- Collaborative, low-ego, and excited to work closely with product, design, and customer-facing teams.
Our stack (infra-leaning)
- TypeScript, Node.js, and React on the application side (with a strong bias toward type safety).
- Postgres and other managed cloud services for persistence and messaging.
- Containers, Terraform (or similar), and a major cloud provider (AWS/GCP) for infrastructure.
How we work & values
- Speed over everything: ship v1s quickly, learn, and iterate rather than chasing perfection.
- Own, downscope, ship, iterate: clear ownership, smallest real thing, tight feedback loops.
- Fundamentals done well: simple, repeatable systems that let us move fast without breaking trust.
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible time off and support for travel to customers when it matters (“get on a plane”).
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 12 open in Engineering. 4 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in February: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
JavaScript (9 of 12), Node.js (9 of 12), TypeScript (9 of 12), LLM (8 of 12), PostgreSQL (8 of 12), Python (8 of 12), Hugging Face (5 of 12)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Software Engineer - Security posted Oct 9
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 2
- Senior Product Engineer posted Sep 30
- Head of Forward Deployed Engineering posted Sep 23
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Sep 15
- Senior Engineering Manager posted Aug 12
- Senior Software Engineer - Integrations posted Jul 24
- Software Engineer posted May 1
- Staff Software Engineer posted Mar 11
- Senior Software Engineer posted Feb 13
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Feb 10
From the team and dates on Flow Engineering's own job board.
Salary context
5 other open postings titled Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure state a salary: median USD 230,000 to USD 275,000 a year.
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