Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer
Carbon, Inc.2 months ago
Base Salary
$210k - $314k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and extend Carbon’s AWS and GCP environments hosting Tier-0 services, maintaining resilience, cost efficiency, and security.
- Design and maintain VPCs, peering, DNS, load balancing, TLS, and secure edge connectivity between cloud services and a global printer fleet.
- Operate and improve Kubernetes clusters and the Istio service mesh, including workload isolation, traffic management, mTLS, and observability.
- Lead Terraform initiatives from module design through rollout and maintain infrastructure-as-code standards, state, and module ecosystems.
- Improve Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines for build performance, artifact management, safe deployments, and production delivery.
- Participate in platform on-call, lead incident response and postmortems, and convert recurring operational issues into permanent fixes.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture, design and code reviews, cross-team collaboration, and engineer mentorship.
Requirements
- Seven or more years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with deep expertise in AWS or GCP and working proficiency in the other.
- Strong networking fundamentals covering VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing, TLS, VPNs, and secure cloud-to-edge or on-premises connectivity.
- Expert-level Terraform experience, including module design, state management at scale, and non-trivial migrations without downtime.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions or comparable systems.
- Strong production Kubernetes expertise, including cluster operations, control plane and networking concepts, workload isolation, upgrades, and multi-tenant strategies.
- Production service mesh experience, ideally with Istio, including Envoy-based traffic management, mTLS, authorization policy, observability, and cross-mesh debugging.
- Fluency in Linux and containers plus at least one scripting or systems language such as Python, Go, or Bash.
- Experience with infrastructure reliability practices, failure-mode analysis, blast-radius reduction, cost management, observability, and on-call operations.
- Strong communication, debugging, problem-solving, and cross-team initiative leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience connecting cloud services to physical devices or edge hardware, familiarity with Bazel or another polyglot monorepo build system, experience with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls, or experience supporting an internal platform team.
Benefits
- Comprehensive total rewards package including equity, benefits, and time off programs.
- Onsite role associated with the Sunnyvale or Santa Clara, California office; geographic pay differentials may apply based on work location.
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About Carbon, Inc.
Carbon builds a polymer 3D printing platform—printers, materials, and cloud software—for product teams that need functional, end-use parts and scalable production. The company sells its M-series printers, resins, and design/production tools to manufacturers in footwear, dental, medical, and automotive markets. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Carbon is privately held.