# Software Engineer, Infrastructure
**Company:** [Siftstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/siftstack)
**Location:** Marina del Rey, CA, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $150K-$200K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Go, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, Argo Cd, Terragrunt, Kafka, Flink, gRPC
**Posted:** 2025-10-27
> Builds and maintains scalable infrastructure for real-time telemetry platform using cloud, containers, and DevOps tools. Requires 3+ years in distributed systems, hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/GCP/Azure.
## 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 (e.g., **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.

## Tech Stack
- **Go**, **Java**, **React**, **TypeScript**, **Kafka/Redpanda**, **Flink**, **AWS**, **Azure**, **GCP**, **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, **Terraform/CDK**.
- Web frontend & backend: **ECharts**, **Go**, **gRPC**, **PostgreSQL**, **Protobuf**, **Radix**, **React**, **Redux**, **TypeScript**.
- Data: **Arrow**, **DataFusion**, **Flink**, **Parquet**, **Rust**.
- Infrastructure: **Argo CD**, **AWS**, **Docker**, **GitHub Actions**, **Grafana**, **Kubernetes**, **Kustomize**, **Linux**, **Prometheus**, **Terragrunt**.

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