Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Accountabilities:

• • Turn ambiguous infrastructure challenges into clear technical proposals and drive them through RFCs, architecture reviews, and cross-team alignment.
  • Design and build self-service platform capabilities and APIs, primarily in Go, covering onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-2 operations.
  • Establish reliable delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive delivery, automated testing, and continuous deployment practices.
  • Evolve multi-tenant EKS infrastructure to improve reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Develop and improve ingress and traffic-routing capabilities, including Envoy Gateway and multi-region, cross-account connectivity.
  • Strengthen SLOs, alerting, incident response, and operational follow-up through Grafana Cloud and improved observability practices.
  • Measure success through outcomes for consuming engineering teams, including faster provisioning and deployment, greater self-service, and improved operational reliability.
  • Develop AI-assisted operational workflows such as alert enrichment, incident context gathering, runbook-assisted diagnosis, remediation recommendations, and onboarding assistants.
  • Maintain appropriate human oversight for AI-assisted operational actions, with an emphasis on safety, auditability, and responsible automation.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation after onboarding and shadowing, while helping improve the overall health of on-call through better alerts, runbooks, automation, and blameless postmortems.
  • Lead strategic platform initiatives from initial design through production adoption and establish durable technical patterns across engineering teams.

  Requirements:

  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong software engineering expertise in Go or a comparable programming language, including system design, testing, debugging, code review, and long-term maintainability.
  • Proven experience designing, delivering, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production.
  • Deep expertise in at least one area such as Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms.
  • Strong Linux, networking, and production operations fundamentals.
  • Experience setting technical direction and leading initiatives that require alignment across multiple engineering teams.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in remote environments and through RFCs, design documents, and incident writeups.
  • Experience with EKS, ingress, CNI, or service-mesh technologies is valuable.
  • Familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CI/CD, progressive delivery, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and canary deployments is a plus.
  • Experience leading large-scale migrations, platform adoption programs, or cross-team infrastructure initiatives is beneficial.
  • Strong systems judgment, curiosity, pragmatic decision-making, and the ability to develop deep expertise while navigating adjacent technical domains.
  • Willingness to participate in an operational on-call rotation and contribute to improving its effectiveness.
  • Visa sponsorship may be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on business needs.

  Benefits:

  • CA$238,250–CA$382,250 + equity for Canada-based candidates.
  • Remote-first work arrangement.
  • Flexible scheduling and autonomy in managing your working hours.
  • Generous paid time off, quarterly wellness days, and an end-of-year wellness break.
  • Home-office support to help create an effective remote workspace.
  • Technology stipend equivalent to US$100 net per month.
  • Annual learning and development stipend covering conferences, courses, certifications, and continued professional learning.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment.
  • Equity participation for full-time employees.
  • Medical, retirement, and paid-holiday benefits, with details varying by country.
  • Opportunities to lead major infrastructure initiatives involving self-service provisioning, multi-region networking, continuous deployment, Kubernetes, and platform engineering.
  • Significant technical ownership within a small, growing infrastructure team.
  • Exposure to AI-assisted and agentic operational workflows, with a focus on safe and auditable automation.
  • Fully remote collaboration with distributed engineering teams.
  • Offices available in Seattle and Paris for connection and collaboration.