# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Writer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/writer)
**Location:** New York, NY, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $140k – $274k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, Python, Go, Prometheus, Grafana, Elk, SRE, DevOps, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Build and operate highly available infrastructure for an enterprise AI platform, spanning cloud systems, Kubernetes, automation, observability, and reliability engineering. Requires 5+ years of production infrastructure experience, strong Python or Go skills, and daily use of AI-assisted workflows.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and operate resilient, scalable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure for high-traffic enterprise AI services.
- Work across SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform initiatives, including on-call operations, release pipelines, multi-region infrastructure, and internal platform capabilities.
- Automate operational tasks and infrastructure management using Python or Go.
- Design and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure, with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and related tooling.
- Use AI-assisted workflows to investigate incidents, draft infrastructure changes, write runbooks, scaffold tooling, and review pull requests.
- Lead incident response, post-mortems, and root-cause analyses; implement architectural improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Own service reliability, performance, and efficiency, including SLOs, error budgets, and on-call operations.
- Provide reliability, performance, and scalability guidance throughout product development and launch.
- Collaborate with product, security, platform, and engineering teams.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or a similar role operating large-scale, highly available production systems.
- Production experience running containerized workloads and real clusters.
- Experience with Helm and Terraform or Pulumi on at least one major cloud provider, preferably AWS.
- Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling.
- Daily experience using agentic or AI-assisted development and operations tooling.
- Ability to identify systemic reliability weaknesses and make decisions based on constraints, failure modes, and business tradeoffs.
- Experience with monitoring and logging stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, autonomy, and ownership skills.
- Experience owning at least one infrastructure build end-to-end with measurable outcomes.

## Nice to Have
- Software engineering experience building and shipping production services, libraries, or internal frameworks.
- Ability to work across infrastructure automation and feature engineering in Python, Go, or a comparable language.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual compensation range: $139,800–$273,700.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid parental leave and fertility and family planning support.
- Flexible spending and health savings account options.
- Wellness and learning and development stipends.
- Company and team off-sites.
- Company stock options and 401(k).

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