# Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

**Company:** [Zoo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $145k – $195k/yr
**Skills:** Rust, Databases, API Design, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure As Code, Containerization, Observability, Monitoring, Alerting, Stripe
**Posted:** 2026-04-29

> Senior engineer owning reliability, automation, and evolution of core cloud infrastructure systems. Builds tooling, integrations, and observability; troubleshoots across backend, infra, and frontend. Requires Rust proficiency, database expertise, and distributed systems experience.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Design, implement, and maintain core systems and services that support our platform’s reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Build automation and tooling that reduce operational overhead, improve developer workflows, and enforce system-level consistency.
- Develop integrations between our systems and external platforms (e.g., billing, CRM, authentication, analytics).
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across services to ensure strong operational visibility.
- Architect and maintain infrastructure components (e.g., distributed services, data pipelines, deployment automation).
- Contribute to security-focused systems work, such as permissions controls, access flows, and auditability.
- Troubleshoot issues across services and layers, backend, infrastructure, and occasionally frontend, taking full ownership from diagnosis to resolution.
- Jump into frontend code as needed to close the loop on system-level changes or fix issues that block broader system reliability.

## What You’ll Need

- B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong professional experience in systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- **Proficiency in Rust** with a solid understanding of systems-level programming.
- Solid experience with **databases** (transactional & analytical) including schema design, performance tuning, migrations, and operational reliability.
- Strong understanding of **API design**, data flows, and service integrations.
- Hands-on experience with **distributed systems** or service-oriented architectures.
- Comfort working with **infrastructure-as-code** and **containerized deployments**.
- Ability to work autonomously and make high-leverage technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.
- A bias toward automation and building tools that remove friction.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with **frontend development** (**JavaScript/React**) for occasional UI-level fixes.
- Background with **billing systems** (**Stripe**) or CRM platforms.
- Experience building internal tooling, permissions systems, or developer productivity infrastructure.
- Familiarity with CAD-adjacent workflows or domain-specific data pipelines.

## Compensation

Salary Range: **$145,000—$195,000 USD**. In addition to salary, competitive equity and full benefits package.

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