Senior Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer

Armis

Senior Staff Engineer in Data Infrastructure R&D for Federal business at Armis Security. Leading architectural improvements and operational excellence for FedRAMP environments.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSKafkaKubernetesLinuxMongoDBPostgresSparkTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and contribute to architectural initiatives designed to improve the scalability and cost-efficiency of our Federal environment.
Serve as the senior technical escalation point for Data Infrastructure issues in FedRAMP.
Collaborate with the Data Infrastructure team to enhance and validate Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies.
Ensure the health and performance of core stateful systems (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka) under strict compliance constraints.
Partner with security teams to implement necessary controls, including automated certificate management, network policy enforcement, and regular security patching.

Requirements

What you’ll need

US Citizenship is mandatory due to federal access requirements.
7+ years of experience in Infrastructure or Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps with a focus on data-intensive systems.
Proven track record of supporting high-scale stateful infrastructure in production.
In-depth, hands-on understanding of at least one major relational database (e.g., PostgreSQL), one streaming platform (e.g., Kafka), and open-lakehouse technologies (e.g, Spark, EMR, Hive, Trino).
Strong hands-on experience debugging production issues in Linux environments and managing AWS infrastructure.
Comfortable not just deploying to K8s, but debugging it—understanding networking, resource scheduling, and complex operator patterns.
Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, or similar tools to manage infrastructure reproducibly.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive health benefits
Discretionary time off
Paid holidays including monthly me days
Highly inclusive and diverse workplace

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Hard Skills & Tools

PostgreSQLMongoDBKafkaAWSLinuxTerraformHelmSparkEMRHive

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingleadership