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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Builds and operates core infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, geo-deployments, edge security, and cost optimization to support rapid growth and team productivity. Requires deep AWS/K8s experience and strong engineering fundamentals.

Salary not listed
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own Kubernetes and cluster foundations: build and operate production clusters with service mesh, scaling, and ingress.
  • Design geo-deployment architecture: build replicable process for deploying geo-replicated services across cloud regions and providers.
  • Build edge and security infrastructure: design networking and security layer at edge for abuse protection, rate limiting, and traffic routing.
  • Own cost management and optimization: build attribution systems, identify waste, and ensure smart tradeoffs between cost and reliability.
  • Unify compute platform: define single container orchestration strategy for consistent, reliable deployments.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with AWS (or comparable), especially VPC networking, EKS/K8s, and IAM/account management.
  • Built and operated production Kubernetes clusters at scale, including service mesh, autoscaling, and multi-region deployments.
  • Understand edge networking, CDN/WAF architectures, and traffic management at infrastructure level.
  • Care about infrastructure-as-code, reproducibility, and enabling self-serve reliable infrastructure for other teams.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with cost optimization at scale or infrastructure migration/unification.

Skills

KubernetesAWSEKSVpcIAMService MeshCdnWafInfrastructure As CodeAutoscaling

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