Staff Infrastructure Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead infrastructure and reliability efforts as a hands-on software engineer, strengthening security and scaling cloud systems for rapid growth. Own the reliability practice and set technical direction for infrastructure across the engineering organization.

What you'll do

• Build out security infrastructure early on to support customers with demanding compliance needs.
• Redesign cloud, container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code architecture to handle significant growth in usage and data volume.
• Take ownership of reliability and observability, including service level objectives, alerting, incident response and postmortems.
• Write production-quality code and automation that reduces repetitive manual work and operational risk.
• Work closely with engineering leadership and a small platform team to set infrastructure direction.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Background as a software engineer who moved into platform or infrastructure work; SRE or DevOps experience is fine if it centered on building rather than maintaining.
• Hands-on production experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, including Docker and Helm.
• Experience managing Kubernetes environments ranging from a few to a couple hundred clusters.
• Track record of building and scaling infrastructure from zero to one or from one to ten.
• Working knowledge of information security.
• Experience at a high-growth startup.
• Ability to work on-site in New York 4 to 5 days a week.

Bonus points

• Programming background in at least one current, widely used language.
• Exposure to monitoring and telemetry tooling for keeping services healthy.
• Familiarity with AWS.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 230,000 to 280,000 per year
• Equity
• Health, dental and vision coverage
• Unlimited paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan

Location and work model

• New York, NY, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in office (4 days possible)
• Full-time