Infrastructure Software Engineer
DepthFirst23 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Build and operate cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters for production systems and engineering teams.
- Develop sandbox management and workload orchestration services covering allocation, isolation, health monitoring, failure recovery, and resource lifecycle management.
- Improve workload scheduling, autoscaling, capacity management, performance, cost efficiency, and resource utilization.
- Strengthen compute-environment security through workload isolation, access controls, network policies, and secure configuration.
- Build observability and operational tooling, debug production issues across services and infrastructure, and implement durable fixes.
- Improve infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and upgrade processes.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes knowledge, including scheduling, networking, resource management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with SaaS, Bring-Your-Own-Cloud, and air-gapped deployment architectures.
- Strong software engineering skills in a language such as Go and experience maintaining production services.
- Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, retries, partial failures, and resource lifecycle management.
- Understanding of Linux, containers, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production observability.
- Ability to balance reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational complexity and own systems through deployment and operation.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work through ambiguous problems collaboratively.
- Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
- Bonus qualifications include AWS and EKS, Helm, Terraform or Pulumi, infrastructure control planes, Kubernetes controllers or operators, sandboxing, virtualization, secure execution environments, high-concurrency workloads, and infrastructure for AI platforms, developer tools, or security products.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with meaningful equity.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- Office lunch and dinner when working from the San Francisco office.
- Direct ownership of foundational systems and influence over technical direction.
- Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of AI and security.
About DepthFirst
DepthFirst builds an AI-driven security platform that analyzes source code, infrastructure, and business logic to detect and help remediate software vulnerabilities, including potential zero-days. It sells enterprise security software and services to engineering and security teams at organizations with large codebases and open-source dependencies. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, the company focuses on general security intelligence delivered by AI agents that continuously scan customer and popular open-source projects.