Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own core platform services and major migrations end to end, from proposal through production, including stateful and business-critical systems with minimal customer-visible downtime.
• Operate containerized workloads and delivery systems, including orchestration, scheduling, GitOps deployments, progressive rollouts, rollback, and service mesh.
• Bring production Kubernetes expertise to a team currently running Nomad and help determine the appropriate use of each scheduler.
• Architect and operate AWS infrastructure, including multi-account governance, IAM, cross-account access, VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, DNS, certificates, and egress paths.
• Manage identity, secrets, encryption, workload identity, least-privilege access, SSO/OIDC, machine-to-machine credentials, Vault, and key rotation.
• Operate databases, replication, message brokers, caches, time-series stores, backups, and tested restores.
• Build observability through distributed tracing, metrics, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and testing frameworks; consolidate monitoring into infrastructure defined as code.
• Build infrastructure as code and developer tooling using Terraform, GitHub, Buildkite, Docker, Nomad, and internal tools, including importing manually created infrastructure and detecting drift.
• Build secure infrastructure and guardrails for AI-assisted development and access to internal systems.
• Participate in on-call ownership and plan operational changes around live dispatch windows with safe rollback paths.
• Read and improve unfamiliar systems, document dependencies, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team infrastructure work.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including several years in DevOps or SRE operating production systems.
• Strong production software development experience in Go and/or Python, including services, tooling, tests, and maintainable code.
• Experience owning infrastructure projects end to end, preferably migrations of stateful or business-critical systems.
• Deep AWS experience with multi-account organizations, IAM, cross-account access, VPC and network design, DNS, secrets management, and encryption key management.
• Deep hands-on production Kubernetes experience, including cluster upgrades, networking and ingress, RBAC, resource management, autoscaling, and debugging workloads under load.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills with Terraform or a similar tool.
• Strong monitoring and observability experience, including metrics, alerts, dashboards, distributed tracing, and open-source tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.
• Hands-on experience operating stateful systems such as relational databases and message brokers, including upgrades, replication changes, or restores.
• Clear communication, documentation, mentoring, and cross-team coordination skills.
• Interest in or experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, MCP, or agents.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Nomad, Consul, and Vault.
• Experience introducing Kubernetes to an organization or operating it alongside another scheduler.
• Experience running self-hosted CI and build tooling, including Jenkins, Argo CD, or artifact repositories.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry or consolidating overlapping monitoring tools.
• Experience testing event-driven workflows and using managed streaming platforms such as Amazon MSK.
• Experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, service control policies, or leading infrastructure governance.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $160,000–$190,000.