Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

• 6-12 years owning core infrastructure

Hard Skills

• Infrastructure-as-code expertise (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK)
• Containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deep cloud experience (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP fine)
• 60% backend / 40% infrastructure balance - writes production code end to end

Soft Skills & Misc

• Clear English communication - do not submit if poor
• Deeply passionate about AI; AI-native/AI-forward company experience preferred
• High intensity, high drive, high ownership
• Based in North America or Western Europe
• Built/contributed to core infra (VMs, queues, containers) at an AI-native, Series A-C startup
• Currently writes production application code as a SWE - NOT a pure DevOps/SRE
• Experience managing per-customer isolated environments (VMs, containers, persistent cloud workloads) at scale
• Founder or Founding Engineer experience (strong plus)

Join two intense, high-output engineers building something novel: persistent cloud environments at scale with no real playbook.

• Write application code managing VM lifecycle, container updates, queues, observability, and security - scaling from ~500 to 2,000-3,000 environments in the coming weeks.
• Design and ship reliable abstractions around messaging queues, locks, background tasks, and service bus mechanics that product engineers build on.
• Evolve infrastructure-as-code patterns in Pulumi - defining standards others follow.
• Work deep in Linux systems - containers, networking, persistent storage, permissions, runtime debugging.
• Collaborate on a small, high-ownership team with weekly shipping cycles., Pay: $250,000.00 - $350,000.00 per year