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    Senior Infrastructure Engineer

    Buffer
    Remote
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    16 days ago
    infrastructurekubernetesawsterraformci/cdargodevopsremotesenior

    Requirements

    • Experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, or DevOps engineer at a senior level
    • Hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes at scale on managed offerings (GKE, EKS, AKS)
    • Fluency with autoscaling primitives like KEDA and cluster auto scaler
    • Strong AWS knowledge including IAM, EC2, S3, SQS, ECR, ALBs
    • Strong Terraform skills with modular, adaptable, and readable code
    • Experience with production CI/CD using GitHub Actions or equivalent and GitOps via ArgoCD
    • Experience building internal developer tools as products
    • Experience with observability tools like Datadog and Sentry
    • Comfortable with Cloudflare platform including Workers and Zero Trust
    • Ability to read and modify TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and PHP services
    • Fluency with modern AI tools for debugging, documentation, and toil reduction
    • Proactive, able to follow through and work independently
    • Ability to turn ambiguity into proofs of concept and iterate
    • Thrives in remote, asynchronous environments
    • Strong infrastructure expertise with a product mindset
    • Commitment to performance and customer experience
    • Generalist engineer with strong infrastructure depth

    What You'll Do

    • Own the day-to-day reliability of the production platform including EKS, ArgoCD, and AWS services
    • Make CI/CD pipelines faster and more reliable
    • Implement Argo Rollouts with clean rollback paths for progressive delivery
    • Build and evolve developer tools as products, including local development environments and CLI tooling
    • Reduce operational toil using AI to automate low-risk workflows
    • Drive lifecycle upgrades of application runtimes, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, and Terraform-managed infrastructure
    • Improve platform economics through visibility work on Datadog, AWS rightsizing, and log filters
    • Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design teams on platform development and documentation
    • Participate in on-call rotations for incident response and postmortems

    Nice to Have

    • Open source contributions, technical blog, conference talks, side projects, or active accounts on platforms Buffer serves
    • Familiarity with social media management tools or Buffer as a user

    Benefits

    • Remote-first work environment with preference for overlap with EMEA time zones
    • Opportunity to work with a profitable, 15-year-old company innovating with AI-assisted development
    • Collaborative and inclusive culture with focus on diversity
    • Paid collaboration period during hiring process
    • Transparency in company metrics and culture

    About Buffer

    Buffer is a social media management software startup for growing brands and connecting with their customers.

    San Francisco, California, United States
    101-250
    Social Media Management