Senior Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

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About our client

Our client is an Intelligent Analytics company building the human-first analytics experience.

The platform features a strong cognitive layer and a powerful chat agent powered by large language models (LLMs). The agent integrates deeply with the semantic layer to provide data insights with unparalleled accuracy to people of all backgrounds, from data analysts to company executives.

Position Overview

We are seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to join the Infrastructure Engineering team. In this role you’ll be responsible for leading the migration to a cloud-agnostic infrastructure, ensuring high availability and resilience through automation, monitoring, and failover strategies. You'll also optimize CI/CD workflows, manage dev environments, and elevate team capabilities in reliability and operational excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Help migrate our client's stack from AWS to being cloud-agnostic and capable of being deployed in a VPC environment.
• Own the infrastructure automation, ensure high availability, and build failover strategies to improve resilience.
• Set up proactive monitoring and alerting to identify issues before the customers do.
• Build and maintain ephemeral dev environments, optimize CI/CD, and cut build times to keep engineers moving fast.
• Write runbooks, conduct postmortems, and document best practices to improve the operational maturity.
• Share your knowledge and help elevate the team’s understanding of reliability and infrastructure best practices.

About You:

• Experience with AWS services and scripting in Python
• Experience with cross-cloud and/or in-VPC deployments.
• Expertise in designing systems for high availability and redundancy.
• Great documentation skills and a willingness to mentor others.
• Knowledge of authentication and identity management solutions.

In addition, the following qualifications are preferred:

• Automated solutions to database migrations.
• Infrastructure budget development and alerting.
• Data warehouse set up and maintenance.