Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Full-time · Mid / senior

  • Palo Alto · CA
  • Posted 19 days ago
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Job description

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own the reliability, performance and cost of a company's production cloud infrastructure, from architecture and database operations to setting the standards the engineering team works to. Advise leadership on early-stage infrastructure choices as the platform scales.

What you'll do

- Design and evolve cloud architecture on AWS.

- Run production database operations, including sizing, replication and recovery.

- Set and maintain reliability standards for production systems.

- Improve the performance and cost efficiency of live infrastructure.

- Advise the team on which languages and databases to adopt early on.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Deep AWS expertise.

- Hands-on experience tuning and operating PostgreSQL in production.

- Experience building cloud infrastructure from scratch, provisioning resources directly rather than only using existing internal tools.

- Proven results improving response times or spend in running environments, with support for time-sensitive workloads.

- Daily use of AI coding tools in infrastructure work, or a willingness to learn them.

Bonus points

- Prior experience reworking the design of a live system to handle growth without downtime.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 260,000 per year

- Equity

- Health, dental and vision coverage

- Parental leave

- Retirement plan with company match

- Flexible time off

- Professional development training

Location and work model

- Palo Alto, California, United States

- Hybrid, with in-office days as needed

- Full-time

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