Infrastructure Engineer
Builds low-level infrastructure software from first principles to power a cloud platform, focusing on OS primitives, distributed systems, and scalable gRPC services in Golang/Rust for high developer leverage.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build system-level software from first principles, focusing on efficiency with CPU, memory, network, and kernel primitives.
- Develop fault-tolerant, resilient, and scalable Golang/Rust gRPC services to expose capabilities.
- Design distributed systems using tools like RAFT or Postgres, balancing complexity and simplicity.
- Implement solutions with monitoring, documentation, and ownership for error boundaries.
- Handle on-call duties occasionally.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of distributed systems.
- Intuition for solution longevity and scalability (2-3 orders of magnitude, 12-18 months).
- Prioritization skills in ambiguous startup environments.
- Grit to dive into problems, implement, scale, and replace solutions.
- Excellent communication skills.
Nice-to-haves
- Curiosity about OS-level primitives.
- Experience building from scratch rather than standard Kubernetes solutions.
Skills
Go, Rust, gRPC, Distributed Systems, Linux Kernel, Postgres, Raft, Kubernetes, Container Orchestration, System Programming
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