Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Job Title: Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Employment type: Full-time

Location: San Francisco, CA - hybrid, 3-4 days/week on-site, with flexibility

Seniority: 4+ years of software engineering building distributed systems

About this role

Client is looking for a Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join their platform team and build the infrastructure and internal systems the rest of engineering depends on.

This is a software engineering role on an infrastructure team, not an operations role. The person should be writing services and systems in Golang or a comparable systems language, designing for large distributed systems, and running cloud infrastructure at production scale. Coding ability is critical - candidates are held to the same engineering bar as product engineers and must clear a rigorous coding screen plus a dedicated systems design round.

What the person will do

• Design, build, and own backend services and systems that make up the platform layer

• Build and scale distributed systems serving enterprise-grade traffic and multi-tenant workloads

• Deploy, scale, and monitor cloud infrastructure at production scale on AWS or GCP

• Build internal developer platforms and tooling that product engineers depend on day to day

• Work across infrastructure tooling - Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka - to support reliable delivery

• Engage directly with customers to sharpen understanding of the product and its requirements

Requirements

Dealbreakers -Must have requirements

• Worked on platform/infrastructure teams as a software engineer - writing services and systems, not just managing or operating infrastructure

• Strong software engineering fundamentals - must pass a rigorous Leetcode-style coding screen, held to the same bar as product engineer

• Systems design for large distributed systems (tested in a dedicated interview round)

Baseline - expected

• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer building distributed systems

• Built or scaled systems serving enterprise-grade traffic or multi-tenant SaaS

• Backend development in Golang or a comparable systems language

• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) - deployment, scaling, and monitoring at production scale

• Familiarity with infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka) - deep expertise not required, baseline awareness expected

Nice-to-have

• Experience building internal developer platforms or tooling that product engineers depend on

• Background at big tech companies and successful startups

Technical Skills

• Language: Golang, or a comparable systems language

• Cloud: AWS or GCP - deployment, scaling, and monitoring at production scale

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka (baseline awareness; not tested in depth)

• Systems: Large distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, enterprise-grade traffic

• Platform: Internal developer platforms and tooling built for product engineers