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Nash · 10 hours ago

Staff Infrastructure and Performance Engineer

Nash is building the logistics infrastructure for the internet, and they are seeking a Staff Infrastructure & Performance Engineer to own and evolve the performance, reliability, and scalability of their core infrastructure. This role involves designing and operating low-latency, business-critical systems while collaborating with engineering teams to set technical direction and best practices.

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Responsibilities

Own infrastructure performance and reliability across Nash’s production systems, with a focus on low latency, high throughput, and predictable behavior under load
Design, build, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure, leveraging managed services with a strong emphasis on ECS/Fargate
Lead Postgres performance engineering, including query optimization, indexing strategies, connection management, replication, cluster design, and failover
Architect and operate multi-region, highly availability systems with strong resiliency, disaster recovery, and failover guarantees
Design and evolve enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines that support safe, repeatable, and fast deployments across environments and regions
Drive observability standards (metrics, logs, tracing, SLOs) and use data to proactively identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
Partner with application engineers to influence system design decisions that impact scalability, latency, and reliability
Lead incident response and postmortems, focusing on root cause analysis, systemic fixes, and long-term resilience
Set infrastructure and performance best practices and mentor engineers across the organization

Qualification

AWSPostgresCI/CDMulti-region architecturesECS/FargateLow-latency systemsDebugging skillsAutonomous operationProblem-solving skills

Required

6+ years of experience building and operating high-scale, production infrastructure for business-critical systems
Deep expertise in AWS, including networking, compute, storage, and managed services
Hands-on experience running production workloads on ECS/Fargate at scale
Strong background in Postgres, including performance tuning, replication, high availability, and operational excellence
Proven experience designing and operating multi-region architectures with strict uptime and reliability requirements
Strong understanding of CI/CD for enterprise deployments, including rollout strategies, environment isolation, and rollback safety
Experience building low-latency systems where milliseconds matter
Excellent debugging and systems-level problem-solving skills
Ability to operate autonomously and lead technical initiatives in a fast-paced startup environment

Benefits

Competitive compensation and opportunity for equity
Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision insurance

Company

Nash

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Nash is a delivery orchestration platform that enables businesses to organize and manage their delivery.

H1B Sponsorship

Nash has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$27.93M
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2022-07-26Series A· $20M
2021-12-01Seed· $7.8M
2021-08-31Pre Seed· $0.12M

Leadership Team

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Mahmoud Ghulman
Co-Founder & CEO
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Patrick Stubbs
Chief Financial Officer
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