Infrastructure Engineer
Focal Systems4 months ago
Remote, PolandSenior
Base Salary
$102k - $118k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and continuously improve Focal Systems’ core cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, deployments, and observability.
- Reduce infrastructure cost and latency while maintaining reliability and supporting significant increases in load.
- Architect and maintain scalable data-heavy backend infrastructure using Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Docker, and cloud platforms.
- Build and operate deployment pipelines, CI/CD tooling, release processes, and blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and instrumentation for system health across geographies and environments.
- Create tooling that provides access to data stored across different geographic locations and formats.
- Collaborate with backend, deep learning, and embedded engineering teams.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering.
- Production experience with GCP at scale.
- Production experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker.
- Strong Python skills and a software development background, including the ability to read, debug, and contribute to backend code.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
- Experience with Prometheus for metrics, alerting, and instrumentation.
- Solid CI/CD fundamentals and experience with blue/green, canary, and feature-flag deployment strategies.
- Preferred experience with MySQL, including query tuning and operational knowledge.
- Preferred experience with MongoDB, Kafka or comparable streaming platforms, and CircleCI.
- Experience with data-intensive applications and microservices at scale is preferred.
- Advanced written and spoken English and comfort coordinating across time zones.
Benefits
- Remote work in Poland/Europe.
- B2B contract or Employment Contract with full benefits.
- Stock options.
- Paid time off.
- Team retreats.
- Education grants.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaCircleCIDockerFastAPIGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmKubernetesMongoDBMySQLPrometheusPythonTerraform
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About Focal Systems
Focal Systems builds an AI-powered shelf-monitoring platform for brick-and-mortar retailers, combining low-cost shelf cameras with computer vision and a cloud service to automate on-shelf availability checks and merchandising workflows. It sells hardware plus software and analytics subscriptions that integrate with store systems to reduce manual scanning and surface real-time inventory insights. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, the company is privately held and raised a Series B in 2021.