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Senior Infrastructure Engineer II
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Role overview Own a substantial portion of production infrastructure for a software platform, including databases, Kubernetes, upgrades, and internal platform tooling. This is a full-time individual contributor role focused on reliable operations, automation, incident response, and creating safer paths for engineers and other users to test and ship changes.
Responsibilities - Operate and improve AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters, databases, and CI/CD systems. - Manage upgrades, capacity, monitoring, and platform tools while responding to day-to-day infrastructure needs. - Investigate multi-service incidents, address root causes, and reduce noisy or recurring pages. - Participate in a three-person on-call rotation, expected to amount to about one week in three after ramp-up. - Build and document safe self-service environments and workflows for engineers, non-engineers, and AI agents. - Improve observability and operational practices, with goals that include strong availability, reduced paging, and infrastructure cost savings.
Requirements - Experience running production infrastructure on AWS, including relational databases, networking, and load balancing. - Production Kubernetes operations experience, including upgrades, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. - Skill with infrastructure as code and maintaining dependable CI/CD pipelines. - Ability to build useful monitoring and alerting that identifies real issues without excessive noise. - Calm, systematic incident diagnosis and a focus on lasting fixes. - Interest in end-to-end ownership, automation, documentation, and supporting other teams.
Benefits and work setup The role is remote and full-time, with a regular on-call commitment. Listed benefits include an annual learning budget, paid time off and holidays, sick and parental leave, a year-end closure, periodic team retreats, and a paid sabbatical after five years.