Senior Systems Engineer, Infrastructure

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the cloud infrastructure that supports all Buzz Solutions products.

• Ensure the infrastructure is secure, observable, cost-effective, and scalable to accommodate growing customer, imagery, and inference traffic.

• Manage cloud environments, clusters, data stores, and observability platforms.

• Develop code and assist backend engineers in creating services, schemas, and pipelines.

• Establish practices for provisioning, deployment, scaling, and operations.

• Oversee Google Cloud infrastructure while also managing AWS and Azure environments as needed by customers.

• Apply infrastructure as code principles using Terraform across development, staging, and production environments.

• Be responsible for cluster architecture, upgrades, autoscaling, GPU node pools, ingress, secrets, and workload isolation.

• Operate Postgres/PostGIS, Redis, object storage, and queues.

• Design autoscaling, capacity planning, and back-pressure strategies for fluctuating inspection workloads.

• Develop CI/CD processes, security scanning, container management, and progressive GitOps deployments.

• Set up metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, alerting, and dashboards.

• Manage backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity with proven recovery objectives.

• Support security compliance, SOC 2, customer security reviews, and single-tenant deployments.

• Oversee cloud costs and per-customer unit economics.

• Define infrastructure designs, establish standards, and conduct code reviews.

• Design incident response and on-call procedures, and lead blameless postmortems.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years in building and operating production systems, with at least 3 years of end-to-end ownership of cloud infrastructure.

• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (GCP preferred, AWS or Azure) across networking, IAM, compute, managed databases, and object storage.

• Proven production Kubernetes experience in designing, upgrading, debugging, and scaling clusters.

• Proficiency in Terraform at scale: module design, state management, review workflows, and environment parity.

• Experience with Postgres and Redis infrastructure, including replication, high availability, backups, connection pooling, and capacity planning.

• Familiarity with CI/CD and container delivery using Docker, security scanning, and a GitOps or similar release process.

• Experience in observability and on-call duties, including setting SLOs, reliable alerting, and incident resolution.

• Understanding of practical security fundamentals: least privilege, secrets management, network segmentation, encryption, and vulnerability scanning.

• Experience with backup and disaster recovery, including tested recovery objectives.

• Knowledge in managing cloud costs: tagging, budgets, rightsizing, and committed-use planning.

• Ability to communicate clearly in writing through design documents, runbooks, and incident notes.

• No sponsorship is available for work authorizations in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Flexible working hours and remote work opportunities.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous paid time off and holiday leave.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.