Senior Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco, CA, United States

About Crunchbase

Crunchbase helps over 75 million people around the world connect with the companies and people that matter. Powered by best-in-class proprietary data, Crunchbase is democratizing access to opportunities so salespeople, entrepreneurs, investors, job seekers, and others can accelerate innovation for a better future. We're proud to build intelligent products that shape how companies and people connect and enable them to communicate in a more meaningful way.

We are committed to a positive, diverse, and inclusive culture by hiring for potential, focused on the inclusion of people who have different ways of thinking, different viewpoints, different backgrounds, and different skill sets. We value a transparent and open culture that positively impacts our teams and our products.

Crunchbase has a remote-first approach, and is open to hiring in residents of these states:

California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington

Our inclusive remote-first culture, generous PTO policies, competitive pay, and employee wellness benefits set us apart!

Infrastructure Engineering at Crunchbase

As an infrastructure engineer at Crunchbase you will build tooling to enable feature teams to own their solution from commit through to deployment, providing automation, observability and reliability at each step on the path. You'll take a direct role in resolving our most critical and time-sensitive challenges, and you'll apply your creativity to improve the reliability of our platform.

What You'll Do:

Architect, automate and support the backbone of Crunchbase on industry standard platforms and tools such AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform

Build and maintain our custom gateway and network routing infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and security.

Enhance our build, test, and deployment pipelines to streamline processes and improve efficiency.

Develop tools to boost developer experience and productivity, enabling our teams to deliver high-quality features faster.

Serve as a central point for communication, triaging, and resolving site issues, including participation in an on-call rotation.

Apply industry-standard methodologies and your expertise to bolster our cloud, system, application security, and observability practices.

Support, optimize, and help design our data infrastructure, including storage systems, data pipelines, and machine learning architecture

What We're Looking For:

3+ years in cloud engineering, with a strong focus on operations and coding.

Practical understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals.

Proven track record in the practical application of containers in both development and production environments.

Deep experience with command line interfaces and Linux, including scripting capabilities.

A strong desire to stay up to date with industry tools and best practices.

Familiarity with our core tools, including AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, OpenResty, Terraform, Python, ElasticSearch, Postgres, and Kafka.

You may also be entitled to receive equity and benefits.

Salary Range

$170,000-$185,000 USD

What Crunchbase Offers: Competitive salary and equity

Remote first policy

Generous Reimbursement policy for learning and development activities

Monthly fitness / mental health stipend

14 weeks of fully-paid time off for new parents

Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)

Volunteering Paid Time Off

Incredible medical, vision and dental benefits for employees and their families

401(k) and Roth plans, and free annual financial adviser check-in

Monthly internet stipend

Work from home allowance to purchase furniture for your work from home space

Annual carbon offset

Matching charity contributions for our Townhall awards

A team of creative, transparent entrepreneurs driven to accomplish our mission

At Crunchbase, we value team members who are passionate and enthusiastic about what we're building here. We believe there is no "perfect" candidate, and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren't met. If you're passionate about Crunchbase and looking to learn and grow, then we look forward to reviewing your application!

Crunchbase does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Every day our team is honored to work with entrepreneurs and innovators from every corner of the globe, and we aim to build a team that reflects the diversity of our customers. Each individual at Crunchbase brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides a better service to its customers, and helps us all grow and learn as individuals.

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