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title: 'Infrastructure Engineer at Forage'
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# Infrastructure Engineer at Forage

- **Company:** Forage
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/-joinforage/am9icG9zdDpVDH5BC4eyRZ3bhIXNyAdp

## Job description

What we are looking for:

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll own the key services and processes that Forage is built on, and will help set the direction for future growth and investments. Beyond cloud services and CI/CD, you’ll contribute to developer experience, our incident response processes, load testing, and other critical functions. Day to day, you’ll spot weak points before they turn into outages, fine-tune databases to keep them fast under load, and put guardrails in place so product engineers can ship quickly.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on infrastructure/DevOps/SRE work.
- Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g. Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
- Practice preparing systems for production use — come with experience implementing monitoring, autoscaling, and security concerns in live services.
- Proven track record of owning complex systems — e.g. containerized deployments using cloud databases.
- Strong, remote-first, communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
- Nice to have: prior experience in fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own Critical Services: Be responsible for critical services that power our applications, such as the compute and data storage layers powering Forage's payments processing and consumer app API systems.
- Manage CI/CD: Help manage, improve and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, focusing on speed and reliability.
- Improve Incident Response: Help our team reduce noisy alerting by tuning monitor sensitivity and expanding the self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities of our systems. Plan and organize activities to test and evolve how we respond to outages.
- Enhance Developer Experience: Build for both engineers and non-engineers, expanding who can, and wants to, contribute code changes with the adoption of AI agent-led development.

Our Offer:

This role is Hybrid in San Francisco, we define hybrid as 2-3 days in office. We will consider remote within North America on a case-by-case basis. Your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.

- Expected salary range: $160,000 – $180,000 USD base salary
- Meaningful equity
- Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
- 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents.
- Enjoy regular team lunches at our San Francisco offices, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
- A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
- A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.

## About Forage

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Forage builds financial and technological infrastructure that allows merchants to accept government benefits like SNAP EBT through a single, unified API.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $40M in June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Payments
- **Target customers**: B2B – merchants of all sizes (online and in-store) who want to accept SNAP EBT and EBT Cash payments.
- **Mission or purpose**: "Democratize access to government benefits" and "feed families in need" by connecting merchants, shoppers, and the U.S. government.

## Products & Services
- **[SNAP EBT & EBT Cash API]**: A unified API that enables merchants to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits online and in-store. Includes POS device support for in-person transactions.
- **Type**: SaaS / API / Payments Infrastructure

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$1.5M (estimated); Total Funding: $75M (as of June 2026 Series B)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mouro Capital (lead in Series B), Nyca Partners, PayPal Ventures, Long Journey Ventures, Intuit
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 30% YoY to 56 employees; raised $40M Series B in June 2026; expanding into new merchant verticals; 42 million+ Americans using SNAP creates a $200B+ addressable market.

## Competitive Advantages
- First-mover in enabling online SNAP acceptance via a modern API, removing friction for underserved shoppers.
- Mission-driven focus on government benefits creates a strong brand and regulatory moat.
- Unified platform handles both online and in-store EBT payments, simplifying merchant integration.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the platform to accept more government benefit programs beyond SNAP.
- Deepening partnerships with large retailers and payment processors.
- Building out financial products and infrastructure to serve the 42 million Americans on food assistance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values collaboration, diversity, humility, and "ideas over hierarchy." Team is mission-driven with a strong sense of social impact.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – employees work from San Francisco HQ or New York office; some remote roles available for North America.
- **Perks & Benefits**: Health, dental & vision insurance; home office setup stipend; flexible PTO; AI tool stipend; meals; 11 company holidays; 401k; professional growth budget; co-working access; paid parental leave; commuter benefits; HSA; company equity.
- **Employer Rating**: 4.6/5.0 (20 reviews on LinkedIn) with high marks for culture (4.9) and work-life balance (4.7).
- **Open Roles** (as of search): Senior Mobile Engineer (React Native), Account Executive, Product Lead Financial Products, Financial Analyst, Software Engineer (various levels).

## Sources
1. [joinforage.com/careers](https://www.joinforage.com/careers)
2. [joinforage.com/about](https://www.joinforage.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/forage-payments](https://linkedin.com/company/forage-payments)
4. [jobs.gem.com/-joinforage](https://jobs.gem.com/-joinforage)
5. [builtin.com/company/forage-joinforagecom](https://builtin.com/company/forage-joinforagecom)

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