Senior Software Engineer, Reliability

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Remote, US
$120,000 to $190,000 + stock options, equity and benefits

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own infrastructure, reliability, and platform engineering at Nametag. You’ll design and scale the systems that keep our identity verification platform fast, secure, and always available, and build the tooling that makes our engineering team more productive and autonomous. Design, build, and maintain scalable, cost-effective cloud infrastructure across AWS and Fly.io.
Own deployment strategy and service design across our monolith and microservices, including schema migrations and rollout safety.
Identify reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and security gaps, and address them proactively.
Evolve our observability stack: logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and uptime monitoring.
Evolve on-call practices and incident response processes that keep us ahead of customer-impacting issues.
Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and establish deployment best practices.
Build internal platform tooling and abstractions that reduce toil and increase engineering velocity.
Data & ML Infrastructure
Design and operate data pipelines that support our ML-powered verification systems.
Review code, mentor peers, and help raise the bar on security, reliability, and operational discipline.
Work Authorization (Required): Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future need for visa sponsorship. If you’re passionate about what we’re building and have most of the skills below, we’d love to hear from you.
~8+ years of Software Engineering Experience
~ Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
~ Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience managing and securing cloud infrastructure. AWS required; Databases: Deep experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, and query performance tuning.
~ CI/CD: Strong experience designing and managing pipelines, GitHub Actions preferred.
~ Languages: Proficiency in modern, type-safe languages. Experience building and operating logging, tracing, and metrics systems in production.
~ MLOps & Data Pipelines: Prior experience shipping ML infrastructure into production, not just experimentation.
~ Earning trust is central to how we build relationships with customers and colleagues.
We move quickly to deliver impact and protect our customers against fast-moving threats.
The base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $190,000, plus stock options, equity and benefits.

Nametag is a founding member of the Open Imperative, publicly committed to pay equity in the technology industry. Every offer is benchmarked against market data to ensure fairness and consistency.

We’re a remote-first team that values autonomy, inclusivity, and collaboration, with regular in-person time to stay connected and innovate together.
Remote-first: Off-sites: We bring the team together once per quarter for in-person collaboration, often off-site in new places.
Flexible schedules: Meaningful equity ownership
Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
Flexible paid time off
Quarterly team off-sites and travel support
New computer hardware and equipment
Nametag is building the future of secure digital identity. Our mission is to make it easy for people and organizations to prove who they are online, safely and seamlessly. We’re pioneering next-generation identity verification and account protection so that users can control their own identity, and companies can build trust without friction. By enabling trust at scale, we help enterprises reduce fraud, streamline onboarding, and deliver secure user experiences that customers love.

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