Senior Software Engineer – Infrastructure & Platform

. Build cloud infrastructure foundations including accounts and projects, networking, DNS and IPAM, identity and RBAC, quotas, and policy .

Posted 9/26/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSenior💰 $165,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes

Key responsibilities & impact

Build cloud infrastructure foundations including accounts and projects, networking, DNS and IPAM, identity and RBAC, quotas, and policy
Own Kubernetes cluster lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, addons, Gateway API, service mesh, and zero-trust connectivity
Maintain consistent infrastructure patterns across commercial, government, secure, classified, and disconnected environments
Enable disconnected deployment through registry and artifact mirroring, hermetic builds, no-egress artifact sourcing, upstream-free bootstrapping, and out-of-band promotion
Define Spacetime packaging and Kubernetes configuration approaches using Helm, rendering, or custom controllers
Build delivery workflows using GitOps reconciliation with Argo CD, IaC orchestration, drift detection, OPA policy gates, and environment promotion
Own fleet-scale change mechanics including module and chart versioning, staged rollouts, migration paths, and deprecation
Operate infrastructure, including availability, upgrades, capacity, observability, backup and recovery, security maintenance, and incident response
Partner with product and domain engineers to turn requirements into reusable self-service primitives
Manage project priorities, timelines, and deliverables while designing, developing, testing, and maintaining core software

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years of experience with production infrastructure or distributed systems
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Ability to automate infrastructure in code instead of orchestrating it by hand
Experience with AWS or GCP
Experience with infrastructure-as-code
Experience with cloud networking
Experience with Kubernetes infrastructure
Experience packaging and delivering software onto Kubernetes
Understanding of tradeoffs between templating, rendering, and controller-based approaches
Must meet U.S. export-control eligibility requirements: qualify as a U.S. person, be eligible to access export-controlled information without export authorization, or be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain authorization
Export-control eligibility includes U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or other qualifying authorization circumstances

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