# Software Engineer, Infrastructure
**Company:** [Siftstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/siftstack)
**Location:** Marina del Rey, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $150K-$200K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Go, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, Kafka, Flink, gRPC, Postgres, Argo Cd
**Posted:** 2025-10-30
> Builds and maintains scalable infrastructure for real-time telemetry platform supporting mission-critical systems. Requires 3+ years in distributed systems, expertise in cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, Docker, and DevOps tools.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions to support our growing platform and customer base.
- Collaborate with software engineers to optimize application performance and reliability.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure proactive identification and resolution of issues.
- Automate deployment processes and streamline infrastructure management using modern DevOps tools and methodologies.
- Evolve our backend architecture/infrastructure for both cloud and on-premise deployments.
- Work with the team to set and prioritize our roadmap to maximize customer impact.
- Lead initiatives to improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

## Requirements
- 3+ years of relevant distributed systems experience focusing on designing and managing cloud-based environments (**AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**).
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (**Docker**, **Kubernetes**) and container orchestration platforms.
- Passion for building and operating developer productivity tools, frameworks, and other aspects of platform engineering.
- Familiarity with **CI/CD** pipelines and version control systems.
- Knowledge of automated testing best practices and frameworks, ensuring software reliability through integration, performance, and end-to-end testing in distributed systems.
- Good knowledge of cloud, on-prem, networking, and service architecture in multi-region multi-cloud setups.
- Excited by the ambiguity and high-ownership culture of early-stage startups.
- Pragmatic, solution-oriented, and scrappy.
- Enjoy working collaboratively with a broad range of job functions and roles.

## Nice-to-Haves / Tech Stack
- Experience with: **Go**, **Java**, **React**, **TypeScript**, **Kafka/Redpanda**, **Flink**, **Terraform/CDK**.
- Relevant technologies: **ECharts**, **gRPC**, **PostgreSQL**, **Protobuf**, **Radix**, **Redux**, **Arrow**, **DataFusion**, **Parquet**, **Rust**, **Argo CD**, **GitHub Actions**, **Grafana**, **Kustomize**, **Linux**, **Prometheus**, **Terragrunt**.

## Compensation
- Salary range: **$150,000 - $200,000** per year.
- Plus equity and benefits.
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