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Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

Carbon · Sunnyvale, CA · Yesterday
On-siteEngineering$210k–$314k/yrFull-time

Job Summary

At Carbon, we are seeking a Staff Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer to join our platform team. This role involves operating and extending multi-cloud infrastructure, designing and maintaining network connections, running services on Kubernetes with Istio, owning infrastructure as code in Terraform, shipping software faster and safer with CI/CD, and ensuring reliability alongside product teams.

About the Role

You will be a core owner of our AWS and GCP environments, responsible for their resilience, efficiency, and security. You will extend these environments to support future Carbon products. You will also design and maintain the network connecting our cloud to a global fleet of printers, ensuring reliable connectivity regardless of location. Additionally, you will be a core owner of Kubernetes clusters and Istio service mesh, driving substantial improvements in cluster architecture, workload isolation, traffic management, mTLS, and observability. You will also take ownership of Terraform initiatives, shaping IaC standards, managing state and module ecosystems, and making it easy for other engineers to ship infrastructure safely.

Responsibilities

  • Operate & Extend Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
  • Build the Network Between Cloud and Printer
  • Run Services on Kubernetes with Istio
  • Ownt Infrastructure as Code in Terraform
  • Ship Software Faster and Safer with CI/CD
  • Own Reliability Alongside the Product Teams
  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Requirements

  • Seven or more years of experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure
  • Strong networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, load balancing, TLS, VPNs, and secure connectivity between cloud and on-prem or edge devices
  • Expert-level Terraform: Designed modules others depend on, managed state at scale, and led non-trivial migrations without downtime
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions (or comparable systems)
  • Strong Kubernetes expertise: Operated production clusters at scale, understood the control plane and networking model in depth, and designed workload, upgrade, and multi-tenant strategies that others rely on
  • Hands-on experience with a service mesh in production, ideally Istio: Comfortable with envoy-based traffic management, mTLS, authorization policy, and mesh observability, and able to debug problems that cross the mesh boundary
  • Fluency in Linux and containers, and in at least one scripting or systems language (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
  • A production mindset: Think about failure modes, blast radius, cost, and observability from the start, and carry a pager for infrastructure you built
  • Strong communication, debugging, and problem-solving skills, and a track record of driving major initiatives end to end across teams

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

The compensation bracket for this position is $209,600 - $314,400 (per year). In order to maintain equitable internal pay practices, we aim to hire new employees near the midpoint of $262,000, taking into account your experience, work location, certifications, and the unique skills you bring to the role.

Carbon also offers a comprehensive total rewards package that includes equity, benefits, and time off programs. For details on our total rewards package, visit https://www.carbon3d.com/about/life-at-carbon.

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