Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure

RST Recruitment

  • Redwood City, California
  • 24 days ago

    Highlights

    This is a high-impact role where you'll be the responsible adult in production – working cross-functionally with product, security, and customer teams to turn real-world learnings into reusable platform capabilities. Designing and operating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with blue/green, canary, and phased rollout strategies – including graceful draining for high-availability systems.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationRedwood City, California

    Description

    We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure with ideally 5+ years of experience to own and evolve the build, release, and runtime foundations at a fast-scaling voice AI company. You'll design and automate deployment pipelines across cloud SaaS and on-prem environments, orchestrate containers at scale, and ensure reliable, compliant releases. This is a high-impact role where you'll be the responsible adult in production – working cross-functionally with product, security, and customer teams to turn real-world learnings into reusable platform capabilities. If you thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and want to shape infrastructure from the ground up at a company growing from $5M to $36M ARR in a single year, this is the role for you.

    What you will be doing

    • Designing and operating end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with blue/green, canary, and phased rollout strategies – including graceful draining for high-availability systems
    • Architecting, maintaining, and hardening Kubernetes-based runtime infrastructure (Docker, Helm) across multi-cluster and multi-tenant environments on AWS, Azure, and GCP
    • Integrating compliance controls (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) directly into delivery pipelines – including artifact signing, SBOMs, secret management, and policy-as-code
    • Implementing robust observability (metrics, logs, traces), SLOs/error budgets, and automated rollback capabilities
    • Deploying at customer sites (cloud or on-prem), leading incident response and postmortems, and codifying best practices into tooling and templates

    Tech stack:
    Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, AWS, Azure, GCP, Grafana, Python, Bash

    Seniority:

    3+ years of experience in infrastructure/DevOps engineering or as an SRE

    Work experience:

    Built and operated production Kubernetes infrastructure at scale in fast-moving big tech (e.g., FAANG, NVIDIA) or at a VC-backed startup

    Experience building and shipping backend code (ideally started career as a SWE)

    Shipped both SaaS and on-prem deployment solutions

    Integrated compliance controls (SOC 2/HIPAA) into pipelines

    Education:

    CS or similar degree

    Hard skills:

    Kubernetes expertise

    IaC expertise with Terraform for AWS

    Miscellaneous:

    Must relocate to Redwood City, CA (on-site)

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