Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale the platform infrastructure behind a mission-critical, real-time software system. This is a highly cross-functional role that combines infrastructure, backend, platform, and reliability engineering.

You will be responsible for designing, building, and operating the core systems that support high-availability services, distributed workloads, and real-world operational environments. This role requires someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, takes pride in system reliability, and thrives with significant ownership.

As a senior member of the engineering team, you will help shape infrastructure strategy, establish engineering best practices, and build the foundation that enables the platform to scale reliably and securely.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure, networking, compute orchestration, storage, and platform services
• Design and build resilient distributed systems capable of supporting high-throughput, mission-critical workloads
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, automated provisioning, and deployment workflows
• Establish and improve observability across the platform through logging, monitoring, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
• Define reliability, scalability, performance, and availability standards across production systems
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, rapid, and repeatable deployments
• Improve platform security, access controls, system hardening, and operational readiness
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate operational requirements into scalable architectural solutions
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive long-term improvements
• Help define the long-term infrastructure roadmap as systems and teams continue to grow

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as an infrastructure, platform, backend, or systems engineer
• Deep experience with AWS or GCP, including networking, containers, load balancing, compute, and storage services
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform or similar technologies
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, fault tolerance, resiliency patterns, and service-oriented architectures
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or another backend programming language
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, SLIs, SLOs, and operational excellence
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to operate independently in fast-paced environments with a high degree of ownership

You May Be a Great Fit If

• You enjoy building the systems that other engineers depend on
• Reliability, scalability, and performance are challenges you genuinely enjoy solving
• You prefer ownership over narrow specialization
• You like working across infrastructure, backend systems, and platform engineering
• You are energized by complex technical problems and large architectural decisions
• You thrive in environments where you can have a direct impact on both technology and business outcomes

Nice to Have

• Experience with event-driven or real-time systems (Kafka, MQTT, WebSockets, etc.)
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems
• Background in IoT, robotics, mobility, logistics, industrial software, or operational technology
• Experience with edge computing, device communication, or telemetry systems
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
• Experience with distributed tracing and modern observability platforms
• Previous startup experience with high-growth engineering teams