Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Engineer
$175,000–$240,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Architect, implement, and operate Kubernetes clusters supporting thousands of concurrent persistent resources with high availability and efficient utilization. Drive strategy for cluster scaling, node pool management, autoscaling policies, and resource quotas to handle rapid workload growth. Design robust scheduling, placement, and affinity strategies optimizing cost, performance, and fault tolerance for heterogeneous CPU, GPU, and memory-intensive workloads. Establish observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog. Own storage and networking strategies including persistent volume management, CSI drivers, service mesh, network policies, and ingress architecture. Troubleshoot complex cross-system infrastructure issues and guide debugging in distributed environments. Collaborate with backend, ML, and research teams to translate workload requirements into reliable infrastructure patterns. This role is on-site in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood as part of the Platform team.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering experience
- hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS EKS, GCP GKE, or Azure AKS)
- 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)
- GitOps workflows
- Strong working knowledge of container networking (CNI plugins, service mesh, network policies)
- storage (CSI, persistent volumes, StatefulSets)
- security (RBAC, Pod Security Standards, secrets management)
- Ability to operate autonomously, make sound technical judgments, and drive projects from concept through production
- This role is on-site at our San Francisco office in the Dogpatch neighborhood
Desired Qualifications
- Security like experience with gvisor/kata containers, snapshots
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