Staff Engineer - Automations and Infrastructure

Laurel is on a mission to return time. As the leading AI Time platform for professional services firms, we’re transforming how organizations capture, analyze, and optimize their most valuable resource: time. Our proprietary machine learning technology automates work time capture and connects time data to business outcomes, enabling firms to increase profitability, improve client delivery, and make data-driven strategic decisions. We serve many of the world's largest accounting and law firms, including EY, Aprio, Crowell & Moring, and Frost Brown Todd, and process over 1 billion work activities annually that have never been collected and aggregated before Laurel’s AI Time platform.

Our team comprises top talent in AI, product development, and engineering—innovative, humble, and forward-thinking professionals committed to redefining productivity in the knowledge economy. We're building solutions that empower workers to deliver twice the value in half the time, giving people more time to be creative and impactful. If you're passionate about transforming how people work and building a lasting company that explores the essence of time itself, we'd love to meet you.

About the Role

Laurel’s Business Technology team is dedicated to providing reliable, secure, and easy-to-use technology for our employees. This role is crucial for managing our internal IT environment — operating at the intersection of platform, AI, and internal systems. You are the technical anchor for how the company connects systems, automates internal workflows, and embeds intelligent capabilities into the company's infrastructure.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

IT OPERATIONS & INFRASTRUCTURE

- Own the architecture and technical strategy for internal automation systems — defining how the company's tech stack (HRIS, Okta, Salesforce, and others) connects, scales, and stays maintainable

- Architect and manage cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) — including compute, networking, storage, and se...