Senior Software Engineer (Infra)

About VSCO

VSCO (pronounced vis–co) is a platform that equips photographers with the tools, community, and exposure they need to expand creatively and professionally. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves photographers at all levels – preserving a home for creative opportunity, inspiration, and connection.

At VSCO, our mission is to nurture creativity so you can make it. We empower photographers to connect with other creatives and businesses with our suite of creative tools that spans from mobile to desktop and across our global community. We are looking for humble overachievers and self-starters who are naturally curious, highly organized, and thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. We foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, ambition, and progress.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help build the foundation that powers VSCO’s products and internal developer experience. You’ll join a small but impactful team responsible for reliability, scalability, and operational excellence. From shaping our AWS environment to building tooling that makes engineers more effective, your work will have a direct impact on VSCO’s ability to move fast while staying stable.

You thrive on solving tough infrastructure problems, designing elegant automation, and improving systems that scale. You’re also someone who enjoys collaborating across teams and bringing a sense of ownership to everything you do.

The day-to-day

• Be responsible for infrastructure stability and uptime
• Develop and improve internal tools for automation
• Build next-generation operations on AWS with tools like Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design, implement and improve our infrastructure and tools
• Participate in our on-call rotation responding to production issues
• Work closely with other teams to design and maintain backend services and systems.
• Partner with Product Management, Design, and Engineering teams to support product initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, backend, or site reliability engineering
• Skilled in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Go, Python, Java, etc.)
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
• Understanding of system design principles and experience applying them at scale
• Demonstrated commitment to growth, both personal and organizational—actively seeking to extend your knowledge and share it with others
• Experience with Linux operating systems (specifically Amazon Linux)
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to haves

• Experience with the Hashicorp tool suite (Vagrant, Terraform, Packer, Consul)
• Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, etc.
• Comfortable/Experienced with programming languages like Go, PHP, NodeJS, Java, Ruby, Python
• Experience with Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt)
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins and/or other automation tools
• Have used Cursor or similar AI tools
• Experience monitoring and debugging high volume distributed systems
• A passion for photography, visual storytelling, or creative communities
• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Job Perks

• A virtual first workplace with bi-annual company-wide travel events to connect and play
• Competitive Salary & Equity 
• Healthcare insurance, vision, dental insurance for employees and families
• Flexible Time Off
• Company-paid parental, medical and caregiver leave

Why VSCO

We value the creative process and our employees’ opinions — input is encouraged, regardless of your position or title. We want to work with people who are driven and demonstrate initiative in taking our mission to the next level.

We believe in building a safe place for creative expression and celebrating that which makes us human, welcoming unique and personal backgrounds and experiences. We’re proud to foster diverse perspectives within VSCO as we continue to build an inclusive culture.

Compensation

The base salary for this position will vary based on several factors, such as relevant experience, location and your approved internal leveling assessed during the interview process. The base salary range for this role is $172,000 - $185,000.

Salary is one component of our total compensation package. This position also qualifies for equity (i.e. stock options) and is eligible for discretionary bonuses ba