Replit
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Foster City, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 89 days ago
PythonGoGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseSystems EngineeringCommunicationCritical ThinkingMentoring
About the role
- Join our Infrastructure Engineering team and help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Replit's infrastructure that serves millions of developers worldwide.
- As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, implementing automation and establishing best practices that enable our platform to scale efficiently while maintaining high availability.
- Debug and Harden Systems: Dive deep into debugging extremely difficult technical problems, making our systems and products more robust, operable, and easier to diagnose.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement improvements to our build, test, and deployment systems to make software delivery faster, safer, and more reliable for all engineers.
- Create and maintain centralized tooling and automation that improves the entire engineering lifecycle, from local development to production monitoring.
- Your mission will be to proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our stack, then design and implement software and systems to create step-function improvements.
- You will design robust monitoring solutions, automate operational tasks, and continuously improve our infrastructure's reliability, all while mentoring and educating the broader engineering team to make reliability a core value at Replit.
- Drive Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Architect, build, and improve automation to eliminate toil and operational work.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, implement capacity planning strategies, and reduce latency across global regions.
- Elevate Developer Experience: Design and implement improvements to our build, test, and deployment systems to make software delivery faster, safer, and more reliable for all engineers.
- Drive Cross-Company Improvements: Partner directly with service owners across Replit to understand their pain points, and collaborate on implementing build/test/deploy enhancements within their specific services.
- Build Shared Tooling: Create and maintain centralized tooling and automation that improves the entire engineering lifecycle, from local development to production monitoring.
Requirements
- Proven track record of implementing and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions, with strong skills in debugging and performance tuning.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
Skills
- 8-10 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering or similar roles (DevOps, Systems Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering).
- Strong programming skills in languages like Python or Go.
- Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) and cloud-native technologies.
- Strong incident management skills with experience leading incident response and demonstrated critical thinking under pressure.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management tools.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with experience working with engineers from junior to principal levels.
- A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.
- Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and tools.
- Knowledge of modern observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
Compensation
- 💰 Competitive Salary & Equity
Company info
- Partner directly with service owners across Replit to understand their pain points, and collaborate on implementing build/test/deploy enhancements within their specific services.
- Replit Blog https://blog.replit.com/
- Amjad TED Talk https://youtu.be/kCudFI4tcpg?si=l4ViCejV_f2RZkDi
- Operating Principles https://blog.replit.com/operating-principles
- Reasons not to work at Replit https://blog.replit.com/reasons-not-to-join-replit
- We are seeking Staff Infrastructure Engineers who are passionate about building and maintaining resilient systems at scale.
- Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language.
- Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers, including building pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors.
- Build and Integrate: Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers, including building pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors.
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