Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
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Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
At Column Tax were 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 weve 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!
What we are looking for at Column Tax
Improvise adapt overcome. Were a startup everyone jumps in across teams to solve problems and create forward motion.
Empathy communication and teamwork. Tax software isnt a solo effort. Youll collaborate closely with engineers tax analysts designers and GTM on nearly every project.
Ownership mindset. Everyone shapes the product and engineering roadmap
Fierce execution. We focus week to week to deliver real value to taxpayers and partners.
What we are looking for in the role
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 dont need to be an expert but you understand risks and design defensively.
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.
Based in San Francisco / New York City and excited to be in-office at least 3 days a week. If youre not local but are open to relocating let us know!
Day-to-day
Scale infrastructure to meet demand tune system performance reduce costs and prepare our stack for the next 10x in usage.
Shape our cloud strategy identify the best composable primitives across providers so we stay nimble performant and avoid lock-in where it matters.
Own cloud operations proactively monitor system health resolve incidents and help define what good looks like for on-call and observability.
Design and implement internal infrastructure from Terraform modules to deployment pipelines to support both our product and tax teams.
Work cross-functionally with product engineers to unblock feature development debug tricky integration issues or design infra for new products.
Improve developer workflows speed up CI/CD standardize local dev environments and reduce paper cuts that slow the team down.
Week-to-week
Week 1: Meet the team ship to prod on day one fix 12 bugs to get acclimated.
Month 1: Lead and ship a small feature review PRs and demo at all-hands.
Month 3: Own a larger project help scope future work mentor teammates and lead process improvements.
Interview Process
Step 1: Intro call with our Head of Engineering (or a team member)
This is a two-way conversation. Well talk about your background what youre looking for next and the kinds of problems you enjoy solving. Youll also get a chance to learn more about Column how we work what we value and how wed support you if you joined. Bring questions!
Step 2: Take home challenge
Well ask you to complete a 3-hour project that mirrors the kind of integration or tooling work we do every day. Youll have full freedom to do it your way this is about decision-making clarity and implementation not code golf.
Step 3: Interview panels
The interview panels are where youll meet several of us and work through collaborative challenges. The interviews are designed to mimic real work like redesigning a creaky system debugging in a sandboxed environment and walking through a past project. The interview panels are over video calls and 4.5 hours total over two days.
Step 4: Offer
Before making a formal offer we like to speak with a few people youve worked closely with usually a manager or peer. It helps us understand how to support you best. If all looks good well move quickly to extend an offer and kick off what we hope is a long rewarding partnership.
How to apply
At Column Tax were committed to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace. If this sounds exciting even if youre not sure you meet every requirement we hope youll apply. Were looking for people not checkboxes.
Email us at with your LinkedIn/GitHub or apply here:
Employment Type
Full-Time
