Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Applied Intuition16 hours ago
Base Salary
$190k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable multi-cluster Kubernetes infrastructure across cloud providers, including compute, networking, storage, autoscaling, observability, and security.
- Build multi-tenant platform primitives such as tenant-safe storage, shared secrets, RBAC, and workload identity.
- Design secure, sandboxed execution environments for agentic and untrusted workloads.
- Act as a solutions architect for internal platform customers and drive infrastructure designs into production.
- Build developer tooling that improves engineering effectiveness.
- Debug distributed-systems edge cases and own production incidents, incident command, postmortems, and follow-through.
- Mentor engineers and raise technical standards through design reviews and collaboration.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, platform, SRE, or DevOps systems.
- Experience with container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes.
- Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
- Production-quality programming expertise in at least one of Go, Python, Rust, or C++, with the ability to learn other technologies as needed.
- Fluency with infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows, including Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Crossplane, or similar tools.
- Strong cross-team communication, collaboration, and execution skills.
- BS in Computer Science or a related field.
- Preferred experience includes serverless or scale-to-zero container platforms, workload sandboxing and isolation, cluster and cloud networking, multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes at scale, platform security, customer-facing incident command, enterprise AI infrastructure, platform solutions, and open-source infrastructure tooling.
Benefits
- Full-time employees primarily work from the office five days per week, with occasional remote work and schedule flexibility; this expectation does not apply to contractors.
- The company provides accessible and inclusive application and interview accommodations for disabled veterans and applicants with disabilities or medical conditions.
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About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition builds software tools, infrastructure, and operating systems for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous and driver-assistance systems across automotive, trucking, defense, construction, mining, and agriculture. It sells enterprise software and services including simulation, sensor data management, HD mapping, and a vehicle OS to OEMs and government customers. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it counts 18 of the top 20 global automakers and the U.S. military among its users.