As a Senior/Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will own the reliability, availability, and operability of our core Python web services running at scale on AWS.
Requirements
- At least 4+ years in infrastructure / SRE / platform / backend operations roles at technology companies
- At least 3+ years running a critical Python web application in production on AWS
- Strong experience operating services on Kubernetes, including designing deployment strategies, autoscaling, resource limits/requests, capacity planning, debugging pod/node issues and cluster-level problems
- Solid experience with AWS for high availability, such as multi-AZ architectures, load balancers, security groups, IAM basics, using managed services effectively, understanding maintenance windows, failure modes, and regional/AZ considerations
- Experience improving observability for production systems, including implementing or refining system metrics, adding application and product health metrics, standing up useful dashboards, traces, structured logging, and actionable alerts
- Comfort working with Python services at scale, including CI/CD pipelines, dependency management, runtime configuration, performance tuning, concurrency models, and production debugging
- Practical experience with Postgres on RDS, including running it reliably in production, coordinating version upgrades and schema changes with minimal disruption
- A developer experience mindset, making it easier and safer for engineers to deploy and operate services, improving tooling, scripts, and workflows around our infrastructure and observability
- A pragmatic approach to reliability and incident response, participating in or leading on-call rotations and incidents, running postmortems, designing runbooks, and putting guardrails around risky operations
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with product engineers and other stakeholders on tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and complexity
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 401k
- Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental)
- Lunch and snacks at the office
