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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate production Kubernetes clusters with service mesh, autoscaling, ingress, and reliable deployment foundations.
  • Design geo-replicated deployment architecture across cloud regions and providers.
  • Build edge networking and security infrastructure for abuse protection, rate limiting, and traffic routing.
  • Develop cost-attribution systems, identify infrastructure waste, and optimize cloud spend while balancing cost and reliability.
  • Define and unify an opinionated container orchestration strategy for consistent deployments across teams.
  • Make reliable infrastructure easier for other engineering teams to self-serve.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with AWS or comparable cloud providers, particularly VPC networking, EKS/Kubernetes, and IAM/account management.
  • Experience building and operating production Kubernetes clusters at scale, including service mesh, autoscaling, and multi-region deployments.
  • Understanding of edge networking, CDN/WAF architectures, and infrastructure-level traffic management.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code, reproducibility, and self-service infrastructure practices.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and interest in building platforms for other engineering teams.
  • Experience with large-scale cost optimization or infrastructure migration/unification is preferred.

Benefits

  • The interview process includes 2–3 short technical interviews followed by an onsite interview at the office with a small project, idea discussion, and team meetings.

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