As Rally's founding Platform / Infrastructure Engineer, you'll take full ownership of our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and developer experience — building the foundation that lets our engineering team move fast, ship reliably, and scale into an AI-native future.
Key Responsibilities
CI/CD: Evaluate, select, and own Rally's CI/CD platform. Define and track DORA metrics to drive continuous improvement in delivery velocity.
Developer Experience: Build on-demand ephemeral preview environments for a large service footprint that can't run locally. Improve inner-loop developer workflows: build times, local tooling, and service scaffolding.
Infrastructure ownership: Own Rally's full AWS stack (ECS/Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, MSK, DynamoDB), and mature our Terraform IaC — modularization, drift detection, CI for infra changes. Own cost optimization and per-team cost visibility.
Observability & reliability: Maintain and evolve Rally's Datadog observability stack. Build automation tools and runbooks to reduce operational toil and accelerate incident recovery. Drive post-incident reviews and translate findings into systemic improvements that prevent recurrence.
Security & compliance: Container scanning, secrets management, IAM least-privilege enforcement. Support SOC 2 audit requirements as needed.
Required Qualifications
5+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE
Deep AWS experience: ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, MSK, DynamoDB
Production Terraform with a track record of improving IaC maturity
CI/CD platform experience
Strong observability fundamentals
Nice to Have
Early/founding platform team experience
Node.js/TypeScript familiarity (Prisma, GraphQL)
Kafka or equivalent event streaming operations
Temporal or similar workflow orchestration
Deploying Ephemeral/preview environments for complex distributed monolith architectures
Rally is the User Research CRM that helps product, design, and research teams talk to their users quickly, safely, and at scale. Our platform automates the unglamorous parts of research—participant recruitment, outreach, screening, scheduling, consent, and incentives—so teams can spend more time learning from customers and less time wrestling with manual workflows.
We're now building Rally's next chapter: an AI-native platform that handles the full research recruiting lifecycle, end to end.
Trusted by teams at Google, Adobe, Figma, GitLab, Webflow, and others. Backed by Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, and Canapi Ventures.
How We Work
Rally is a remote-first company with teammates across the US and Canada. We default to async communication, use clear written documentation to keep everyone in the loop, and reserve meetings for collaboration, decision-making, and relationship building.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range (US): $190,000 – $225,000 USD per year.
