1 month ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Base Salary
$165k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day reliability of Buffer’s production platform, including EKS, ArgoCD, AWS infrastructure, autoscaling, and incident response.
- Implement progressive delivery and trusted rollback paths with Argo Rollouts.
- Build and evolve internal developer tooling, local development environments, CLI tooling, BIBEs, and per-PR preview environments.
- Automate low-risk operational workflows with AI-assisted tooling while keeping AI from directly modifying infrastructure.
- Drive lifecycle upgrades for application runtimes, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, and Terraform-managed infrastructure.
- Improve observability, cloud-cost efficiency, logging, metrics, and Datadog visibility.
- Partner with engineering, product, and design teams as internal platform customers and improve infrastructure documentation.
- Participate in security work, including dependency and vulnerability management, and help develop shared ownership across the infrastructure team.
- Participate in a distributed on-call rotation of approximately one week per quarter.
- Contribute to a two-day fully paid collaboration period during the hiring process.
Requirements
- Experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, DevOps engineer, or platform engineer operating systems used in production.
- Production Kubernetes experience, including authoring and maintaining Helm charts, tuning autoscaling, and managing resource requests.
- Strong AWS and Terraform experience, including reusable modules and understanding the effects of infrastructure changes.
- Experience operating production CI/CD and GitOps systems with trusted rollback procedures.
- Experience carrying an on-call pager, running incidents, writing follow-ups, and improving alert quality.
- Experience building internal developer tooling such as CLIs, development environments, and per-PR environments.
- Ability to work effectively in remote, asynchronous environments with clear communication and context sharing.
- Fluency with modern AI tools for debugging, documentation, and reducing operational toil.
- Pragmatic judgment around build-versus-buy decisions, operating costs, and infrastructure fundamentals.
- Personal experience making and publishing creative work in any medium.
- Preferred experience with Datadog, Sentry, or similar observability systems.
- Preferred experience with Cloudflare Workers, Zero Trust, and DNS.
- Preferred contribution to an open-source Terraform module or tool.
- Experience with Buffer or the social media management space is a bonus.
Benefits
- Fully distributed, remote-first work arrangement with a preference for at least four hours of overlap with EMEA time zones and openness to candidates worldwide.
- Occasional in-person team gatherings once or twice per year, which are highly encouraged.
- Two-day fully paid collaboration period as part of the hiring process.
- Inclusive and diverse work environment focused on transparency, autonomy, and shared ownership.
- Opportunity to work on infrastructure supporting millions of creators and a globally distributed engineering organization.
Tech Stack
AWSCloudflareDatadogElasticsearchGitHub ActionsGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLHelmKubernetesMongoDBNode.jsPHPPythonRedisTerraformTypeScript
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