Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into clear designs and working systems, contributing to RFCs and architecture reviews.
• Build self-service capabilities and platform APIs (primarily in Go) for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.
• Apply and help shape delivery standards with Terraform, GitOps on Argo CD, progressive rollout, and strong testing.
• Strengthen the multi-tenant EKS foundations for reliability, security, scale, and cost, including Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and multi-region, cross-account connectivity.
• Improve SLOs, alerting, and incident follow-up on Grafana Cloud.
• Help shape AI-assisted and agentic workflows for alert enrichment, incident context-gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis and remediation, and onboarding assistants.
• Participate in on-call rotation, improve alerts, runbooks, and postmortems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong software engineering in Go or similar language, including design, testing, debugging, review, and maintainability.
• Track record of building, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one of: Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.
• Solid Linux and production-ops fundamentals.
• Experience shaping technical direction and working across teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment.
• Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering or equivalent.

Nice-to-Haves

• EKS and ingress/CNI/service-mesh experience.
• Observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
• CI/CD and progressive delivery (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, canaries).
• Driving migrations or adoption programs across teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• United States: $160,900 – $260,700 + equity
• Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life.
• Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break.
• Home office setup.
• 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment).
• Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month.
• PTO plan.
• Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes.
• Equity.
• Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country.
• Remote-first culture.