Purpose in Every Position.
At Velocity Global, we believe that success knows no borders—and it’s built by teams working together across them. Our unified, tech-enabled platform empowers businesses to hire, pay, and support talent in 185+ countries, making global growth not just possible, but seamless. Behind every expansion and every solution is a spirit of collaboration between our teams and the companies we serve. With AI-powered tools and human-first service, we simplify the complexity of global workforce management so businesses can focus on what matters: their people, their purpose, and their potential.
Where Your Work Moves the Needle.
At Velocity Global, every team member helps shape our success. When you join us, you don’t just fill a role—you live our values. They guide how we work, collaborate, and make an impact across borders. By bringing these principles to life, you’ll help us grow stronger, move faster, and lead the future of global work.
✔️Doing the Right Thing
Making authentic, values-driven decisions that build trust—even when no one is watching.
✔️Winning as a Team
Collaborating across diverse perspectives and skill sets to achieve shared goals and celebrate collective success.
✔️Leading with Curiosity
Asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and exploring new possibilities to drive innovation.
✔️Connecting with Empathy
Valuing each person’s unique background and perspective to build an inclusive culture that fosters belonging and creativity.
✔️Driving for Impact
Staying tenacious, customer-focused, and committed to delivering results that make a real difference.
What Makes You a Great Fit:
Velocity Global is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer (InfraEng) with a background in cloud engineering to help us push the boundaries of performance, scalability, privacy, and security. You'll help our teams safely use the cloud, with a heavy emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
You will be based in Palo Alto, California, and in-office collaboration is required for at least three days per week.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze, troubleshoot, coordinate, and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
- Own our Infrastructure as Code Orchestration that allows application teams to consume AWS cloud services through automation and self-serve capabilities.
- Collaborate with DevX and Engineering teams to implement infrastructure architecture that meets our performance and security goals.
- Implement our next-generation cloud infrastructure based on Kubernetes/EKS, Serverless, and other AWS services.
- Contribute through auto-remediation and system engineering efforts to continue our efforts in reducing human intervention in automation of processes and operational tasks.
- Champion an environment focused on collaboration and uplifting others.
- Respond to major incidents, correcting and improving systems to prevent incidents and grow at scale.
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation.
Let’s Connect If You:
- Have knowledge of Terraform in large-scale production environments.
- A proven experience building and delivering Terraform modules as a service for internal consumers.
- Experience with integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with high availability design patterns in the cloud.
- Hands-on experience managing Atlantis in production environments at scale.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
- Strong ability to debug and solve complex issues involving cloud infrastructure and distributed applications.
- Experience with Observability technologies and best practices using Datadog or Prometheus.
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Experience in software development with Golang or Python.
- Experience operating highly scalable cloud architectures (AWS or GCP) with IaC.
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Annualized Pay Range
$145,000—$180,000 USD
Our Commitment to You
At Velocity Global, we’re committed to supporting our team with comprehensive rewards and benefits designed to meet diverse needs across roles and locations. Our core offerings include:
- Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to recharge.
- Parental Leave – Support for growing families.
- Health and Dental Insurance – Where applicable, to cover you and your loved ones.
- Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan – Plan for the future while sharing our success.
Please visit our career page for more information.
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What We Do
Velocity Global accelerates the future of work for anyone, anywhere, anyhow. Its Global Work Platform™ simplifies the employer and talent experience through its proprietary cloud-based talent management technology, backed by personalized expertise and unmatched global scale. The platform offers a full suite of talent solutions, including global Employer of Record and Contractor Management, to help companies onboard, manage, and pay talent in more than 185 countries and all 50 United States.
Founded in 2014, the company has hundreds of employees across six continents, with plans to double in size in 2022.
As a work anywhere company, Velocity Global employees can create a work experience to fit their lifestyle, giving them the freedom to pursue their passion without the hassle of long commutes, rigid schedules and overlapping work-life demands. We empower people to live life fully, supported by a dynamic culture, growth opportunities and unique benefits. In the words of our founder, Ben Wright: “Professional experiences of a lifetime start here.”