Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

At Column Tax, we’re building the next generation of tax software. Our mission is to make it possible for every taxpayer to file confidently in just one click. As the fastest-growing tax e-filer of all time, we’ve already helped millions of Americans. Come help us build delightful, transparent, and easy-to-use tax products — and bring that experience to many, many millions more!

Requirements

• Started in application development but shifted into infrastructure over the past few years and now think in terms of systems, safety, and scale.
• Have a strong thesis on how modern infrastructure should work and can explain it clearly, with tradeoffs.
• Have deep working experience with a major compute provider (e.g., AWS, GCP) and can describe how a VPC, subnet, or IAM policy actually works under the hood.
• Know how to structure and scale Infrastructure as Code and have opinions on composition, separation, and change management.
• Have experience with operations and observability and care about what good on-call, system performance, and alerting actually look like.
• Care deeply about developer experience and productivity — you design tooling, pipelines, and workflows that let engineers move fast without cutting corners.
• Bring a practical security mindset — you don’t need to be an expert, but you understand risks and design defensively.

Benefits

• Bonus points for leading or highly involved contributor for a large cloud migration.
• Bonus points for a blend of startup scrappiness and working in high-scale systems.
• In-office at least 3 days a week.