Founding Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Who is Recruiting from Scratch :

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Our client is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer located in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

1. Own scalability projects end-to-end
2. Ship a pre-scoped project within the first 7 days (eg. redis HA)
3. Ship a project independently within the first 30 days (eg. new CRD for managing worker pools)
4. Build monitoring
5. Ship pre-defined monitoring goals within the first 14 days (eg. prometheus rules)
6. Ship monitoring independently within the first 30 days (eg. refactor call monitoring to real-time alert on latency spikes)
7. Build anti-fragibility into the infrastructure
8. Unprompted, build things that make our infrastructure more antifragile (eg. auto multi-cluster rollover).

Tech stack

JavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, Rust, TypeScript, Distributed Systems

Candidate requirements

1. 5+ years of experience in engineering, with 2+ years of experience in infrastructure
2. Minimum 1 year of experience at a fast-paced company of <100 ppl
3. Experience with Kubernetes, Pulumi, or scaling other distributed systems
4. Previous experience as a Founding/Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer
5. Game to work with the team 6 days/week in SF

The salary range is $140,000 - $240,000 + Equity