Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer designs, builds, and operates cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, observability, and reliability systems at scale, primarily on GCP. Requires high-velocity dev experience, IaC, database scaling, workflow orchestration, and production Python coding.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate foundational systems powering Scrunch's platform, including cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, observability, and reliability.
Requirements
- Experience in high-velocity software development organizations.
- Experience designing, building, and operating cloud services at scale, preferably on GCP.
- Deployed and operated edge compute functions, understanding edge vs. backend logic.
- Treat infrastructure as software: versioned, tested, deployed via automation (Terraform or similar IaC tools a plus).
- Solid understanding of database performance and scaling patterns; hands-on bottleneck identification and resolution.
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools or job queues (Prefect, Airflow, Temporal, Inngest, etc.); design reliable, retryable async pipelines.
- Strong foundation in observable systems: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics dashboards, alerting.
- Comfortable writing production-quality code (mostly Python) with software engineering mindset.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
Benefits
- Equity in fast-growing company.
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Home office stipend, phone/internet reimbursement.
- L&D budget.
- Flexible PTO.
- 401(k).
- Team offsites.
Skills
GCP, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, Prefect, Airflow, Temporal, Postgres, Observability, Distributed Tracing, Structured Logging, Iac, Edge Compute
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