Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

About the Company

Numeral is transforming how taxes get done. We’re the largest and fastest-growing AI-native tax solution, serving over 3,000 paying customers and backed by Benchmark, Mayfield, and Y-Combinator.

Responsibilities

• Design and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure to support critical APIs, services, and data pipelines
• Lead infrastructure architecture decisions for performance, observability, and fault tolerance
• Drive improvements in system reliability, monitoring, and incident response
• Collaborate with product, platform, and data engineering teams to enable rapid feature development
• Automate infrastructure management through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration
• Champion best practices in operational excellence, disaster recovery, and distributed systems design

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building and scaling backend or infrastructure systems
• Proficiency in Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS
• Experience managing containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ECS, or similar
• Expertise in observability tooling such as Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry
• Proven ability to design fault-tolerant, distributed systems at scale
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills
• Startup mindset and ability to handle ambiguity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in payments, tax, accounting, or regulatory tech
• Infrastructure or platform engineering background
• Experience scaling monolith-to-service architectures or event-driven systems
• Familiarity with GraphQL, Kafka, or Terraform

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Wellness perks like Headspace and Peloton One App
• 401(k)
• Lunch and snacks in the office
• Regular team offsites and company events