Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

hud (YC W25)

. Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing production cloud infrastructure with a focus on AWS, Terraform, and containerized systems. Proficient in backend engineering, CI/CD processes, and observability practices to ensure high availability and performance of user-facing platforms.

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AWS Infrastructure ManagementTerraformKubernetes/EKSCI/CD AutomationBackend Engineering

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Hard Skills

AWSTerraformKubernetesDockerEC2CodeBuildECRS3IAMBackend Systems

Soft Skills

Technical AptitudeOwnershipLearning Potential

Tools & Technologies

HelmLoad BalancersNetworkingSecrets ManagementObservability Tools

Industry Keywords

High-AvailabilityUser-Facing PlatformIncident ResponseCapacity PlanningAutoscaling

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerEC2KubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
Build and maintain AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows
Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows
Write code to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling
Support HUD’s infrastructure for RL training data, evaluation systems, and its marketplace for frontier AI labs

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience owning production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, including uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems
Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management strongly preferred
Experience operating CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
Strong backend engineering judgment, including service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
Ability to write clean, maintainable code and apply software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows
Technical aptitude, ownership, and learning potential prioritized over years of experience
Ability to work hours with 70–80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)
Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office (in-office employees)
Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
Equinox membership (US employees)
401k (US employees)
Commuter benefits (US employees)
Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
Support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore