PlacingIT

PlacingIT

Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure - 1817

Redwood City, San Mateo County · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$300kDetected 8 hours ago
PythonBashDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDDevOpsMachine LearningIncident ResponseElectrical EngineeringCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • You'll join a small, collaborative engineering team with significant ownership and visibility, working across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting production workloads.
  • Architect and manage multi-cloud environments, with AWS as the primary cloud platform.
  • Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or Pulumi.
  • Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters supporting compute-intensive applications.
  • Write production-quality Python code to build infrastructure services and automation.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions to ensure platform reliability.
  • Optimize infrastructure performance, scalability, reliability, and cloud costs.
  • Respond to production incidents and implement long-term solutions that improve operational stability.
  • Experience designing and building cloud infrastructure at production scale.
  • We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure to help design, build, and scale the cloud platform that powers a rapidly growing AI organization.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Strong experience architecting highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
  • Proven experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code across multiple environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
  • Candidates should have strong experience with many of the following technologies:
  • Required Qualifications
  • Candidates should have strong experience with many of the following

Nice to have

  • Experience designing infrastructure for distributed compute workloads.
  • Multi-cloud architecture experience.
  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers while remaining deeply hands-on.

Skills

  • Python (production-level software development)
  • Bash
  • Go (preferred)
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • AWS (required)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
  • On-premises infrastructure
  • Platform & DevOps
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Compensation

  • $200,000 - $300,000 Base Salary + Equity

Benefits

  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to support large-scale distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure.
  • This is a highly technical, hands-on engineering role where you'll architect production infrastructure, write production-quality code, and build systems that support large-scale compute and machine learning workloads.
  • Compensation: $200,000 - $300,000 Base Salary + Equity
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