Software Engineer V – Infra/SRE

Mighty Acorn Digital

Software Engineer V leading infrastructure monitoring strategy for high-availability applications. Empowering government agencies through reliable digital services in a modern tech environment.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSJavaScriptTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading the design and implementation of a comprehensive monitoring strategy for a high-availability application, balancing immediate operational needs with long-term sustainability.
Building and maintaining observability infrastructure using Terraform, integrating AWS-native monitoring services with New Relic to provide full-stack visibility.
Collaborating closely with application engineers working on TypeScript/JavaScript services running on AWS ECS, with RDS and EventBridge in the stack — understanding the application well enough to instrument it effectively.
Establishing reliability standards, runbooks, alerting thresholds, and incident response practices that the broader team can own and operate.
Leading and mentoring a technical team, setting direction, unblocking others, and coaching engineers through ambiguous and high-pressure situations.
Working directly with government stakeholders to communicate the reliability posture of the application, surface risk, and build confidence in the systems you're responsible for.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of engineering experience, with significant time spent in SRE, platform, or infrastructure-focused roles.
Hands-on experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform in AWS environments.
Deep familiarity with AWS observability tooling and services, including hands-on experience with ECS, RDS, and EventBridge.
Experience implementing and operating APM and monitoring platforms such as New Relic.
Ability to read, understand, and work alongside TypeScript/JavaScript application codebases — enough to instrument effectively and debug across the stack.
Experience operating systems that process personally identifiable information (PII), with sound judgment about the operational and security practices that entails.
Demonstrated experience leading a technical team in a high-trust, high-velocity environment — setting direction, maintaining standards, and developing the people around you.
Experience working in or alongside government agencies, with an understanding of the organizational dynamics and constraints involved.
Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including the ability to translate complex reliability concepts for stakeholders without an engineering background.
Curiosity, patience, and resilience when navigating ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) is contractually required for this role.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Offers Bonus
Profit sharing bonus available after 90 days

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Hard Skills & Tools

TerraformAWSECSRDSEventBridgeTypeScriptJavaScriptAPMNew Relicmonitoring

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcuriositypatienceresiliencecoachingdirection-setting

Certifications

Bachelor's degree