Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain foundational infrastructure supporting compute, networking, deployment, and observability.
• Define and enforce SLOs, build alerting systems, and lead preventative postmortems.
• Build reliable CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems while automating release toil.
• Manage AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Build internal tooling and platform capabilities that improve developer speed, safety, and autonomy.
• Implement infrastructure-level security practices, including secrets management, network policies, RBAC, and supply-chain integrity.
• Capacity-plan, load-test, and tune systems proactively.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to, resolve, and document production incidents.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, engineering, or a related field.
• 2–5 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful infrastructure, platform, or SRE experience.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience with a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or a similar tool.
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals, including the CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and failure modes.
• Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with observability tooling for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Security-conscious approach to blast radius, least privilege, and secrets rotation.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems such as ad tech, fintech, or real-time bidding.
• Familiarity with service mesh, eBPF, or advanced Kubernetes networking.
• Experience with database infrastructure and data streaming.
• Track record of improving developer experience and reducing time to deploy.
• Experience at a high-growth startup where infrastructure scaled rapidly.