Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate Kubernetes clusters that support thousands of concurrent, persistent resources (agents, jobs, services) with high availability and efficient resource utilization.
• Drive the strategy for cluster scaling, node pool management, autoscaling policies, and resource quota frameworks to handle rapid workload growth.
• Design and implement robust scheduling, placement, and affinity strategies to optimize cost, performance, and fault tolerance for heterogeneous workloads (CPU, GPU, memory-intensive).
• Establish and uphold best practices around observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response for infrastructure systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
• Own storage and networking strategy within Kubernetes — including persistent volume management, CSI drivers, service mesh, network policies, and ingress architecture.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross-system infrastructure issues and guide others through effective debugging and remediation in distributed environments.
• Collaborate closely with backend, ML, and research teams to understand workload requirements and translate them into reliable infrastructure patterns.

Qualifications

• Typically, 5+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience, with hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or Azure AKS) and associated networking, storage, and IAM primitives.
• Proficiency in at least one systems or backend language for operator development and infrastructure tooling.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane) and GitOps workflows.
• Strong working knowledge of container networking (CNI plugins, service mesh, network policies), storage (CSI, persistent volumes, StatefulSets), and security (RBAC, Pod Security Standards, secrets management).
• Ability to operate autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production.