Senior Software Engineer (Cloud)

Straight Arrow is fearlessly dedicated to exposing the hard truths in the stories that are dividing Americans today. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for architecting and maintaining cloud infrastructure, leading AI initiatives, and building internal utilities to enhance engineering productivity.

Responsibilities:

• You'll be the primary steward of Straight Arrow’s cloud infrastructure — architecting, provisioning, and maintaining our AWS & GCP cloud environments
• You'll own SAN's AI agents end-to-end: scoping, building, and integrating them meaningfully into our products and workflows
• You'll accelerate all of SAN engineering by building internal platform products that save the team time, and help the organization move from "interesting idea" to "working thing" faster than we could without you
• You'll be a trusted technical voice in cross-functional conversations — helping translate business needs into engineering decisions and making sure leadership has what they need to make informed calls
• You'll identify blockers before they compound, find shared solutions, and actively help the team work better together. Your impact will be measured as much by what you enable in others as by what you ship yourself. You'll invest in the growth of the engineers themselves through design discussions, code reviews, and just being someone they can learn from

Requirements:

• Meaningful experience working within AWS, including serverless architectures (Lambda), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu), and cloud cost/reliability management
• Experience working in mobile app or web development
• Comfortable working across a stack and across teams — this role requires breadth as much as depth
• Strong engineering fundamentals — you write clean, maintainable code and you know why it matters
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects from ambiguous problem to shipped solution
• Experience mentoring or leveling up other engineers
• Experience with Wordpress
• Experience with mobile application development in React Native / Expo
• Experience with user / subscription management utilities (piano)
• Experience with vendor management, integrating with 3rd party utilities
• Exposure to vendor analysis
• Experience working in the media / journalism space