4 hours ago
Base Salary
$165k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate AWS and EKS infrastructure using Terraform, Helm or Kustomize, and Flux GitOps.
- Own production cutovers, including ingress, DNS, workers, cron jobs, telemetry, dashboards, and rollback plans.
- Partner with product and data teams on namespaces, secrets, preview environments, and shared-infrastructure design.
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD, self-hosted runners, image builds, and deployment pipelines for multiple language ecosystems.
- Operate MySQL, Mongo, Valkey/Redis, and OpenSearch as platform services.
- Manage Cloudflare and CloudFront DNS, CDN behavior, WAF, and custom domains.
- Improve observability and autoscaling through monitors, dashboards, and external-metrics HPA.
- Participate in infrastructure on-call, troubleshoot Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and DNS issues, and implement durable fixes.
- Review infrastructure pull requests and design documents and guide engineers through platform tradeoffs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production systems.
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes or EKS, Linux, and Terraform.
- Production AWS experience with EKS, IAM or IRSA, VPC networking, NAT, DNS, and at least one of RDS/MySQL, ElastiCache/Valkey, or OpenSearch.
- Experience with GitOps and CI/CD using Flux and/or Helm and GitHub Actions; self-hosted runner experience is a plus.
- Familiarity supporting CI pipelines, images, and runners for Go, Python, PHP, Node, Java, Ruby, or similar languages.
- Experience leading technical architecture discussions, explaining tradeoffs, and driving decisions.
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and converting them into durable infrastructure, alerting, or documentation improvements.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to teach platform consumption and write cutover plans.
- Nice-to-have experience with Cloudflare, CloudFront, OpenSearch, Valkey/Redis, MySQL, Mongo, Kafka, Datadog, Groundcover, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions Runner Controller, or preview environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with an office in San Francisco, California.
- Regular in-person collaboration events.
- Competitive salary, equity, and performance-based discretionary bonuses.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and family insurance coverage.
- Flexible time off, paid parental, medical, caregiver, and sick leave, plus 11 paid holidays.
- 401(k) retirement plan, mental health resources, and technology reimbursements.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSCloudflareDatadogGitHub ActionsGoHelmJavaKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLNode.jsPHPPythonRedisRubyTerraform
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About VSCO
VSCO builds photo and video creation software for photographers, best known for its iOS and Android editing app with presets and creative tools, offered via subscription. The company is expanding a workflow that spans creation, editing, and delivery, including desktop (macOS) offerings. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and serves a global community of photographers and creatives.