
Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
Fluidstack2 months ago
Austin, TX, USA +3 moreSenior
Base Salary
$208k - $269k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and operate the fleet observability platform, including data pipelines, decoration and correlation, health checks, and telemetry from sites to devices and links.
- Design and build stable, versioned APIs for production infrastructure and unified fleet management.
- Build the Kubernetes-based production control plane for machine management, state inspection, and distributed command execution.
- Maintain fleet state as a source of truth across provisioning, operations, infrastructure management, and customer-facing platforms.
- Define SLOs and integrate site lifecycle state into internal and customer-facing systems.
- Onboard new hardware generations and sites through ZTP, DHCP, DNS, and artifact management.
- Respond to production incidents, lead postmortems, and remediate systemic causes.
- Automate repetitive operational work and deliver production services used by other teams at scale.
Requirements
- Experience shipping and operating production services that other teams depend on at scale.
- Strong API design and versioning experience, including understanding of abstractions that remain maintainable at scale.
- Ability to work autonomously through ambiguous infrastructure problems and learn unfamiliar domains quickly.
- Willingness to participate in on-call operations, lead incidents, write postmortems, and fix systemic issues.
- Comfort working in any programming language with AI coding tools.
- Fluency with AI tooling such as LLM APIs, MCP servers, agentic frameworks, Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.
- Bonus experience with distributed systems and data pipeline engineering.
- Bonus experience with Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Temporal, Cadence, BMC/Redfish, or hardware telemetry.
- Bonus proficiency with Go, Python, and Postgres.
Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package including salary and equity.
- Retirement or pension plan in line with local norms.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Generous paid time off policy in line with local norms.