Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About the Role

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems. This is not a pure infrastructure role; the right person has strong production infra experience and thinks like a backend engineer, reasoning about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and translating product requirements into resilient systems. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on.

Responsibilities

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management.
• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths.
• Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on‑call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly.
• Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk.
• Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling.

Experience

• Owned production cloud infrastructure for a high‑availability, user‑facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost.
• Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; strong preference for experience with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management.
• Built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems.
• Strong backend engineering judgment—able to reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code and apply solid software‑engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows.
• May also have experience operating infrastructure for data‑heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer‑tools, or enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long‑running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high‑concurrency services.
• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability.
• Experience building internal platforms or tools that accelerate engineers without hiding excessive complexity.

Team & Company Details

• Team size: ~25 people, mostly full‑time in‑person, with some remote members.
• Team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.
• Company stage: eight‑figure funding, scaling profitably and quickly to meet strong demand.

Logistics

• Employment: Full‑time.
• Location: Offices in San Francisco or Singapore; remote candidates accepted if they can work 70‑80% overlap with either time zone.
• Visa sponsorship: Support for relocation and visas for strong full‑time candidates to the US or Singapore.
• Timeline: Applications are rolling; interview process includes 2 technical interviews and a 2‑3 day work trial.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• 100% covered top‑of‑the‑line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees).
• Lunch and dinner provided for in‑office employees.
• Company‑wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays.
• Additional perks: Equinox membership, 401(k), commuter benefits (US employees).
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude, Code, Cursor, etc.