Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Arena Intelligence, Inc.2 days ago
Responsibilities
- Own Arena’s cloud architecture covering hosting, compute, networking, and infrastructure supporting its products.
- Define and execute hosting and workload strategy across serverless, edge, containers, Kubernetes, and durable execution systems.
- Design workload identity, least-privilege IAM, short-lived credentials, secrets management, network boundaries, private connectivity, and egress controls.
- Manage infrastructure as code with ownership, CI/CD, review practices, and ongoing cost and risk improvements.
- Establish SLOs, monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident response, and post-incident follow-through.
- Partner with product, research, data, and security teams and help hire and mentor the infrastructure team.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure, including ownership of architecture decisions at a fast-growing company.
- Deep hands-on experience with GCP and/or AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool.
- Strong experience with OIDC, workload identity federation, IAM design, secret managers, and key rotation.
- Experience operating serverless or edge platforms and making appropriate platform-selection decisions.
- Experience with queues, workflow engines, or durable execution systems for long-running and asynchronous workloads.
- Track record of leading infrastructure through incidents and implementing lasting improvements.
- Clear written communication and ability to explain technical trade-offs to engineers and leadership.
- Preferred experience includes AI product infrastructure, sandboxed code execution, model serving, GPU clusters, Databricks or similar data platforms, Postgres at scale, cloud security, detection engineering, security posture tooling, or serving as a first infrastructure hire at a fast-growing startup.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and additional health and wellness support programs.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team.
- Culture focused on transparency, trust, and community impact.
- Compensation is aligned to the markets where team members are based, with role-specific ranges stated on the posting.
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About Arena Intelligence, Inc.
Created by researchers from UC Berkeley, Arena (formerly LMArena) is a community-powered platform to measure and advance the frontier of AI for real-world use. Tens of millions of builders, researchers, and creative professionals come to Arena to use frontier models and give feedback on their responses, shaping a public leaderboard grounded in real-world use.