# Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

**Company:** [Carbon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/carbon)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $210k – $314k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, istio, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, Go, Bash, Linux, Networking
**Posted:** 2026-07-29

> Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer owning multi-cloud (AWS/GCP) platform, Kubernetes/Istio, Terraform IaC, networking to edge printers, and CI/CD pipelines at Carbon. Requires 7+ years production cloud infrastructure experience, expert Terraform, strong Kubernetes and networking skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Operate and extend multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS and GCP) for Tier-0 services, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and security.
- Design and maintain networking between cloud services and a global fleet of printers, including VPCs, peering, DNS, load balancing, TLS, and secure edge connectivity.
- Own and improve Kubernetes clusters and Istio service mesh: cluster architecture, workload isolation, traffic management, mTLS, and observability.
- Take end-to-end ownership of Terraform initiatives, including module design, state management, and IaC standards.
- Lead improvements to CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions for faster builds, safer deploys, and better feedback loops.
- Participate in on-call, drive incident response, postmortems, and help teams adopt strong operational practices.
- Provide technical leadership, design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship across infrastructure, security, and application teams.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise in at least one of AWS or GCP and working proficiency in the other.
- Strong networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing, TLS, VPNs, and secure connectivity between cloud and on-prem or edge devices.
- Expert-level Terraform: designing modules, managing state at scale, leading migrations without downtime.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions, including build performance, artifact management, and safe deployment patterns.
- Strong Kubernetes expertise: operating production clusters at scale, control plane and networking model, workload/upgrade/multi-tenant strategies.
- Hands-on experience with a service mesh in production (ideally Istio), including envoy-based traffic management, mTLS, authorization policy, and mesh observability.
- Fluency in Linux, containers, and at least one scripting or systems language (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
- Production mindset focused on failure modes, blast radius, cost, and observability; experience carrying a pager for infrastructure.
- Strong communication, debugging, and problem-solving skills; track record of driving major initiatives end-to-end.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience connecting cloud services to physical devices or edge hardware in the field.
- Familiarity with Bazel or another polyglot monorepo build system.
- Experience with security and compliance controls (SOC 2, ISO 27001) for cloud infrastructure.
- Experience running or contributing to a platform team serving other engineers as internal customers.

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