Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Core
Rebuild the platform infrastructure for real-time chat, video, and activity feeds serving billions of API requests by migrating from AWS to GCP and self-hosting databases.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Infrastructure)
Builds
Kubernetes clusters, cloud migration artifacts, and production Go/Python tooling for platform engineers.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Distributed Systems
Required skills
Kubernetes cluster design, Go, Python, cloud cost optimization, high-scale system architecture, incident response, PostgreSQL sharding, networking fundamentals.
Preferred skills
AWS to GCP migration, FinOps, real-time systems (WebSockets/WebRTC), Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana, CockroachDB, Redis.
Responsibilities
Design and operate infrastructure for real-time systems carrying millions of concurrent connections; drive Kubernetes end-to-end cluster architecture and workload design; re-architect workloads for the AWS to GCP migration; own cloud cost and efficiency work; write production Go and Python for internal services and automation; lead post-migration tuning and capacity planning; participate in on-call and incident response.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership
