<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>About Engine<br></strong></h3><p>At Engine, we’re transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we’re here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That’s why we’re building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.</p><p>To make this vision real, we’re looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.</p><p>More than 20,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.</p><p>Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In’s Best Places to Work.</p></div><p>As Staff Engineer on the Control Plane / Core team, you're one of a handful of people who set the technical direction for how every engineering team at Engine builds and ships. You won't be embedded in a single vertical — you're working on the substrate underneath all of them.</p><h3><strong>You'll be hands-on with</strong></h3><ul><li>AWS control plane— multi-account architecture, account vending, VPC networking, organizational guardrails, IAM boundaries.</li><li>CI/CD platform— template pipelines, shared GitHub Actions/workflows, org-level policies, secret distribution. You moderate what's shared; teams contribute upward.</li><li>Terraform execution— Terraform Cloud workspaces, module registry, our internal modules, the tooling that lets a feature team stand up a namespace and start shipping in hours, not weeks.</li><li>Networking & security— Cloudflare (WAF, DNS, WARP, page rules), core network topology, certificate management.</li><li>Vendor integrations— Datadog, JFrog, Terraform Cloud, GitHub OIDC — the connective tissue between vendors and our accounts.</li><li>Cost observability— tooling and dashboards that give teams visibility into what they own and spend.</li></ul><p>You'll also be a force multiplier for the embedded engineers: the patterns, modules, and primitives you build are what they hand to feature teams. When something embedded engineers keep solving locally needs to become a paved road, that's your work.</p><h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3><ul><li>Lead the technical evolution of the control plane — not just keep it running, but decide where it goes next.</li><li>Design and ship platform primitives (Terraform modules, pipeline templates, account/networking patterns) that feature teams adopt because they're better than the alternative — not because they're mandated.</li><li>Partner with embedded infra engineers to identify recurring friction across verticals and turn it into self-serve capability.</li><li>Own the boring-but-critical work: AWS Organization hygiene, CI/CD reliability, vendor contracts and integration health, incident response on shared infrastructure.</li><li>Mentor across the discipline. We hold infra standups twice a week — that's where you'll teach, learn, and stay aligned with the embedded engineers.</li><li>Reduce the SDLC step-function count. Every new approval gate, every "ask infra first" workflow is a tax — your job is to lower it.</li></ul><h3><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h3><p><strong>Required</strong></p><ul><li>8+ years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with deep AWS expertise (multi-account, networking, IAM, security boundaries).</li><li>Expert-level Terraform — you've designed reusable modules, run TFC at scale, and have opinions about state, drift, and execution patterns.</li><li>Strong CI/CD background — GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC, secret management.</li><li>Experience with platform engineering: shipping internal tools and abstractions that other engineers actually want to use.</li><li>A bias toward enabling teams over gatekeeping. You'd rather build the paved road than approve the off-road permits.</li></ul><p><strong>Strongly preferred</strong></p><ul><li>Cloudflare (WAF, DNS, zero-trust/WARP) at production scale.</li><li>Datadog, JFrog, or comparable vendor integration experience.</li><li>Background in cost observability or FinOps tooling.</li><li>History of working in or alongside embedded/platform models — you understand the difference between a platform team and a ticket queue.</li></ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p data-start="62" data-end="438"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong data-start="62" data-end="78">Compensation<br></strong></span><br data-start="78" data-end="81">Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, total compensation may include equity and/or variable pay (OTE). Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process.</p></div><div class="title">Base Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$121,400</span><span class="divider">—</span><span>$168,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation</strong><strong><br></strong>We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:</p><ul><li><strong>Compensation:</strong> Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.</li><li><strong>Benefits:</strong> Check out our full list at<a href="https://engine.com/culture"> </a><a href="http://engine.com/culture">engine.com/culture</a>.</li><li><strong>Environments for Success: </strong>Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we’ll make sure you have what you need to succeed.</li></ul><p><em>Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more.</em></p><p><strong>Ready to Build the Future of Work Travel?</strong><strong><br></strong>Join us on our mission to transform how work travel works—for businesses, for travelers, and for the industry. Apply now and let’s make travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable—together.</p></div>