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# Software Engineer, Infrastructure

- **Company:** The Ladders
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $133,000.0 - $184,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Amazon DynamoDB, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Data Ingestion, Backend, Kubernetes, Apache Flink, Terraform
- **Published:** August 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/p8u2f7mgqt

## About the Role

* 2-4 years of software engineering experience focused on infrastructure or backend systems
 * Hands-on experience with Terraform and Kubernetes in production environments
 * Familiarity with AWS managed database services like DynamoDB and RDS
 * Strong programming abilities in Python or similar languages
 * Systems-thinking mindset for reliability and scalability
 * Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems and communicate effectively across teams
 * Experience with data ingestion and ETL pipelines is a strong plus

## Description

* Build and maintain infrastructure for Data Engineering workflows using Airflow, Flink, and chalk.ai
 * Own and operate DynamoDB and RDS storage solutions for data engineering
 * Write infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and manage Kubernetes workloads
 * Collaborate with Data Engineering to create scalable infrastructure solutions
 * Enhance reliability through observability and capacity planning
 * Participate in the full infrastructure change lifecycle from design to implementation
 * Contribute to the Data Infra team's practices as the organization scales


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