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At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift, we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. We believe in harnessing AI responsibly to unlock new possibilities, and we're looking for individuals who use it intentionally to solve problems, accelerate outcomes, and expand what's possible in their role. Our purpose is to help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers who shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.
Commerce, recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in Austin, San Francisco and Australia, is looking for a full-time Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure team. This role is open for remote work within U.S. time zones or can be based in our Austin, Texas office.
As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Commerce, you will be an integral part of our Infrastructure Engineering team. Our team consists of a talented group of individuals with expertise in web operations, systems administration and software engineering. We are charged with designing and creating the foundational technology stack that powers Commerce stores, while building the tools and systems that help engineering teams efficiently develop and deploy Commerce services.
We are seeking an experienced engineer who blends software engineering skills with developer operations. You might be familiar with this role as a "DevOps Engineer", but at Commerce, we view DevOps as a philosophy - a set of principles that guide how we collaborate, work together and drive results for our business and customers.
Currently you will find us predominantly working in Golang, Ruby, and Scala, backed up by Terraform and Puppet for provisioning and configuration management. We are a remote-first team that values collaboration and prioritizes team over individual achievements, innovative problem solving, and operational efficiency.
What You'll Do:

• Contribute to the planning and implementation of key initiatives to enhance the stability and reliability of our database infrastructure.
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles to create tools, services, and automation for building, monitoring and operating complex infrastructure and service-oriented architectures
• Collaborate on platform-level initiatives that drive engineering automation and efficiency across the organization
• Continuously improve, evolve and innovate the observability of Commerce's platform architecture
• Take full ownership of issues and projects, driving them to completion with a high degree of autonomy
• Participate in planning and technical design sessions, contributing to their successful execution
• Join the team's on-call rotation

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in building software, operating, or supporting large-scale Linux based service-oriented architectures, with expertise in SQL systems as a bonus
• A deep interest in learning and working with new technologies and programming languages
• Experience in UNIX systems administration, along with proficiency in Golang, Ruby, PHP, or Bash
• Hands-on experience with Docker and orchestration tools such as Nomad (we use Nomad), Kubernetes, or Amazon ECS
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet (we use Puppet)
• Experience with observability and application performance monitoring (APM) tools, such as Alertmanager, ELK, Prometheus, New Relic, Sentry and Lightstep
• A software engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help infrastructure and software excel together
• An excellent communicator who thrives in a geographically distributed team with team members in Austin, San Francisco, Sydney and remote
• Obsessive compulsive, but in a good way. Your systems and scripts are clean, well-documented and comprehensible

Work Where You Thrive
For candidates based in the Austin Metro area, this role follows a hybrid work model, with three days per week in the office to balance focused individual work and meaningful in-person collaboration.
This description is intended to serve as a summary of key duties and responsibilities and may not contain a comprehensive list of activities.
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(Pay Transparency Range: $110,000.00 - $216,000.00)
Compensation Transparency
The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post.
Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams.
Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies. Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.
Inclusion and Belonging
At Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Learn more about the Commerce team, culture and benefits at https://www.commerce.com/careers/
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Be advised:
Commerce does not offer jobs to individuals who do not go through our formal hiring process.
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• require payment of recruitment fees from candidates;
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