Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design and oversee the structure, networking, and foundational infrastructure of GCP projects.

• Take ownership of Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, including provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and ensuring reliability.

• Establish and uphold standards and patterns for infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.

• Enhance system architecture to improve scalability, resilience, and overall performance.

• Create reusable infrastructure patterns that can be safely utilized by product teams.

• Minimize friction for developers while ensuring robust guardrails are in place.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to refine the deployment and operational processes of services.

• Manage and advance foundational observability systems, including metrics, logging, and tracing.

• Develop and sustain infrastructure for secrets management, IAM, and security primitives.

• Ensure that infrastructure is secure by default, rather than as an exception.

• Enhance the reliability of infrastructure and mitigate systemic risks.

• Lead and participate in incident response efforts involving infrastructure issues.

• Identify and eliminate potential failure modes and bottlenecks at the infrastructure level.

• Promote visibility and optimization of cloud costs.

• Develop systems and practices that balance performance, reliability, and cost considerations.

• Collaborate with leadership to ensure that infrastructure investments align with business objectives.

• Shape the infrastructure strategy across various teams and services.

• Promote the adoption of standards and best practices throughout the engineering organization.

• Identify systemic challenges and spearhead cross-team improvements.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• Extensive experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable cloud services and distributed systems.

• Strong expertise in:

• Networking (VPCs, load balancing, DNS).

• Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar tools).

• Proven experience in building and managing production-scale infrastructure systems.

• Proficient programming/scripting skills (Go, Python, etc.) for automation and tooling purposes.

• Ability to collaborate across teams and influence technical direction effectively.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision care.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Wellness benefits.

• Additional perks.