Principal Infrastructure Engineer

As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Voxel51, you will shape the architecture and strategy of the systems that power our platform — from individual researchers to enterprise-scale deployments.

Requirements

• Deep experience with containerized environments
• Building, packaging, and debugging container images
• Kubernetes (and Docker Compose) for orchestration
• Building, maintaining, and deploying Helm charts
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)
• Scripting and automation skills (Bash or similar)
• Python expertise, including build and environment management, packaging/distribution, release management, and dependency debugging
• CI/CD systems experience, ideally GitHub Actions (we use this today)
• Cloud infrastructure knowledge, especially GCP (IAM, VPC, load balancing, ingress/egress routing, proxies, firewall rules)
• Database fundamentals, ideally MongoDB or similar NoSQL systems
• Observability skills, including designing meaningful monitors, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Security best practices, including certificates, service accounts, least privilege, and role assumptions
• Troubleshooting ability across complex, distributed systems (including with customers in the loop)
• Testing mindset: comfortable with designing and applying different types of tests to validate functionality
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work directly with enterprise customers as well as collaborate across teams in a remote-first, collaborative environment
• Adaptability and curiosity, with the ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar concepts and technologies

Benefits

• Base salary $250K-$280K
• Equity in the form of options
• Variety of benefits
• Opportunity to grow in an exciting and collaborative environment