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title: 'Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Collective'
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# Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Collective

- **Company:** Collective
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$230k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/collective/a0b0dcc0-f0d9-45c4-9ba5-31ac01bcd46b

## Job description

About Collective: Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work. Our technology and team of trusted advisors help members achieve financial independence by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services, and access to a thriving community, all in one integrated platform. We believe in empowering self-employed people to enjoy the same tax savings that big companies get, so they can focus on their passion, not paperwork. Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Financial Times, TechCrunch, and more. We are backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures, QED Investors, Google’s Gradient Ventures, Expa, and other investors who have financed iconic companies like YouTube, Substack, Twitch, Box, Hims, Instacart, and Lyft. About the role: You'll join Collective's Infrastructure team, a small group that owns the platform every engineer here builds on: AWS and GCP foundations, CI/CD, IaC, observability, secrets management, and identity. We partner with product engineering to unblock shipping, with the security team to keep the platform safe, and with the AI Platform team on the infra behind Collective's growing AI investments. As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer on this team, you'll pave new paths, test recovery plans, and manage quiet, stable systems. You'll be the person justifying design choices with production experience and the one others turn to when a system needs rethinking. What you'll do:

- Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision, deploy, and manage cloud resources on AWS and GCP as well as other SaaS vendors.
- Embed security best practices into the infrastructure by enforcing zero-trust architecture principles like least privilege and identity-based access to protect systems and data.
- Build scalable, reliable, and cost-effective systems that hold up as Collective grows.
- Develop and test disaster recovery plans.
- Own the CI/CD system engineering teams ship on. Set standards, drive reliability and speed improvements, and mentor teams on best practices.
- Reduce operational toil across the platform through automation, leveraging AI tooling where it accelerates safe, high-quality work.
- Work closely with product engineering teams to understand application needs and translate them into scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Own the observability stack (monitoring, logging, alerting) and use it to proactively identify and remediate performance bottlenecks.
- Participate in the on-call rotation to respond to outages, recover systems, own incident response and post-mortem.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices in Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, and Platform Engineering.

What you'll bring:

- At least 5 years of hands-on experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps, or SRE with a proven track record of operating production cloud environments at scale.
- You operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. You can pick up a half-defined problem, define the path forward, and drive it to production without waiting for a playbook.
- Cloud Platforms: Proficiency in multi-cloud operations. AWS is highly preferred; GCP is a plus.
- Experience implementing infrastructure and security policy as code.
- Strong software development skills, preferably in Python or another high level language
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for driving cross-team alignment. You must be able to clearly and persuasively communicate complex concepts and risks in an engineering-driven environment.
- Experience mentoring engineers, leading post-incident reviews, or driving cross-team infra initiatives to completion. You're comfortable being the person other engineers ask when something breaks.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code for automation and tooling. Experience building internal tools or services to eliminate manual work is a plus.
- Familiarity with foundational networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPCs, firewalls) and their application in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Strong hands-on skills with Linux and command-line tools; you are comfortable using terminals and utilities to manage and debug systems efficiently.
- Comfort using AI tooling as leverage for infra automation, tooling, and debugging. Bonus if you've built or contributed to AI-assisted DevOps workflows.

Our stack:

- Cloud: AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS, Elasticache, Opensearch), GCP (BigQuery)
- Monitoring/Observability: Datadog, Sentry, Amplitude
- Github, GHA
- IAC: Terraform, HCP
- Security tooling
- Codebase: Python/Typescript/React

What we offer:

- Hybrid Work Model: Based in San Francisco with a balance of in-office and remote flexibility.
- Fresh Lunch: Provided on in-office days.
- Commuter Support: $150 monthly reimbursement for transit expenses.
- Health & Wellness: $200 quarterly reimbursement to support your well-being.
- Time Off: Flexible PTO plus 14 company holidays.
- Comprehensive Coverage: 100% medical, dental, and vision for employees; 75% coverage for dependents.
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks fully paid.
- Retirement & Ownership: 401k plan plus an equity package.
- Team Connection: Quarterly virtual events and an annual in-person summit.

## About Collective

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Collective is the first all-in-one online back-office platform designed exclusively for self-employed entrepreneurs (solopreneurs), handling formation, bookkeeping, payroll, taxes, and compliance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Uğur Kaner (Co-Founder, Board Member) – other co-founders not publicly named in search results.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Fintech – specifically back-office and financial management for solopreneurs.
- **Target customers**: B2B, focused on self-employed individuals (freelancers, consultants, independent professionals) in the United States.
- **Mission / purpose**: To give self-employed entrepreneurs the technology and team they need so they can focus on their passion, not their paperwork. [collective.com/about-us](https://www.collective.com/about-us)

## Products & Services
- **[Collective Platform]**: A compound SaaS platform that includes LLC/S Corp formation, monthly bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, compliance, and ongoing financial support. Designed to replace an entire back-office team for a single-person business. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/collective-1)
- **[Open Ledger Integration (acquired April 2026)]**: An AI-native accounting infrastructure that automates transaction categorization, tax preparation, cash flow forecasting, and cost-saving identification. The acquisition aims to evolve Collective into a “system of action” that proactively manages finances. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $149.69M (per CB Insights) – includes Seed ($8.7M), Series A ($20M), Venture Round ($50M), and a recent Series C ($70.99M raised ~1 year ago). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/collective-1)  
  *Note: Other sources report $78.65M total, likely pre-Series C.*
- **Notable Investors**: General Catalyst, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Expa, Innovius Capital, and 41+ other investors. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/collective-1)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Named one of America’s Best Startup Employers by *Forbes* for the fourth consecutive year (2026). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)
  - Acquired Open Ledger in April 2026 to accelerate AI-native financial automation. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)
  - Addressable market: Over 30 million self-employed people in the U.S. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Niche focus**: Solely serves solopreneurs, offering a unified platform that competitors (e.g., QuickBooks, Gusto) provide only as fragmented pieces.
- **Human + software model**: Combines a dedicated team of tax pros, bookkeepers, and advisors with automated software, replicating a full finance department.
- **AI-first roadmap**: The Open Ledger acquisition positions Collective to offer predictive, self-driving financial operations (auto tax withholding, cash flow forecasting) – a moat in the small-business fintech space.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen AI automation**: Integrate Open Ledger’s AI-native accounting to reduce manual work and provide real-time financial guidance.
- **Expand platform capabilities**: Move beyond a “system of record” to a “system of action” that actively manages finances on behalf of users.
- **Scale the solopreneur market**: Continue to grow within the U.S. self-employed segment, which Collective estimates at 30+ million people.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes “power of community,” “people first,” “constant progress,” and “driven by member success.” Described as a tribe that makes business personal and human. [collective.com/careers](https://www.collective.com/careers)
- **Work model**: Offices in San Francisco (HQ at 555 Mission Street) and Long Island City, NY. Likely hybrid – specific remote/hybrid policy not stated in search results.
- **Recognition**: Consistently named a top startup employer by Forbes (2023–2026), signaling strong employee satisfaction.
- **Engineering culture**: Tech stack includes Python, Django, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAI, dbt, and more. Active roles for Fullstack and Senior Software Engineers, Product Lead (Core Platform & AI). [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)
- **Growth opportunities**: 10 open positions as of mid-2026, including Head of Sales, Lead Product Designer, and Senior Technical Recruiter. Quarterly job posting growth of +66.7% year-over-year. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed, but the company invests heavily in AI and product innovation, offering engineers and product people a chance to build at the intersection of fintech and AI.

## Sources
1. [collective.com/careers](https://www.collective.com/careers)
2. [collective.com/about-us](https://www.collective.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/collective](https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/collective-1](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/collective-1)
5. [pitchbook.com/profiles/company/231882-13](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/231882-13)

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