Principal Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

Principal Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

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Our Compute team provides a robust platform for service owners to build and deploy their applications. We manage the core infrastructure, ensuring a reliable and scalable environment for development teams. Our work involves maintaining and evolving our Kubernetes and EC2 infrastructure, and we're currently exploring multi-cloud strategies, including GCP. We are a small, collaborative team that values ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.

• Design, build, and maintain our core compute infrastructure, primarily using Kubernetes and EC2.
• Work on our infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform to manage and provision resources.
• Automate configuration management with Chef to ensure consistency across our fleet.
• Manage our internal software packages using Aptly.
• Collaborate with service owners to provide support and guidance on best practices for using our platform.
• Participate in on‑call rotations to support our production environment and respond to incidents.
• Help us research and implement new technologies as we expand into a multi‑cloud environment, including exploring multi‑architecture support for our containerized workloads.

• Proven experience managing production‑grade infrastructure with Kubernetes and EC2.
• Experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Proficiency in configuration management tools like Chef (or similar, such as Puppet or Ansible).
• Experience with package management, ideally with Aptly.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms beyond AWS, particularly GCP, is a plus.
• Strong scripting skills in a language like Python, Bash, or Go.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.) and security best practices.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and a collaborative attitude.

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