Member of Engineering – Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Design and develop the build, CI/CD, and tooling infrastructure that Poolside's researchers and engineers depend on daily.

• Become a part of our infrastructure team as the second engineer dedicated to enhancing developer experience.

• Collaborate closely with the current owner of this area while sharing on-call duties, incident response, and platform responsibilities with the broader team.

• Optimize our monorepo for speed, ensure our builds are reproducible, and maintain a coherent Python ecosystem by leveraging automation to amplify your impact across all teams at Poolside.

• Assume significant responsibility for our build and CI/CD systems, supported by a well-established infrastructure team.

• Create tools and solutions designed to enhance the efficiency of our engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with Bazel — including writing and maintaining rules, macros, and toolchains.

• Understanding of remote caching and build optimizations.

• Proven experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Buildkite.

• Proficient in dynamic pipelines, agent fleet management, and build-time optimization.

• Strong proficiency in Python, covering packaging, dependency management (uv/pip/Poetry), and virtual environments.

• Experience integrating Python and ML/research codebases into a monorepo build system.

• Proficient in Go.

• Experience in writing backend services.

• Familiarity with developing CLI applications and internal developer tools.

• Expertise in debugging issues on Linux, including network and process-related challenges.

• Experience with containerization using Kubernetes.

• Familiar with both managed and self-hosted Kubernetes environments.

• Knowledge of AWS services.

• Comfortable managing IAM policies and ensuring appropriate permission settings.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform or OpenTofu for managing complex AWS environments.

• Skilled in observability and monitoring tools and practices.

• Experienced in incident response protocols and best practices.

• Comfortable collaborating within a larger infrastructure team — sharing on-call responsibilities, contributing to incident responses, and building tools that other engineers rely on.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible hours.

• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays.

• Health insurance allowance for you & dependents.

• 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave.

• Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances.

• Company-provided equipment.

• Frequent team get-togethers.

• Diverse & inclusive people-first culture.