Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra (Remote, Stock Options)

Focal Systems; Województwo pomorskie; Remote; PLN 407,000 - 469,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Attractive Stock

Paid Time Off

Team Retreats

Education grants

Job summary

Focal Systems, a Silicon Valley startup with a global footprint, seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale the production platform that ingests data from stores across GCP and Kubernetes. You will optimize costs, reduce latency, and collaborate with backend, ML, and edge teams to keep the system performing at scale.

You will troubleshoot production issues, implement IaC with Terraform/Helm, and design tooling for cross-region data access.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems on a cloud platform (GCP preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, MySQL/PostgreSQL, or MongoDB under load.
• Kubernetes production experience including autoscaling and GPU node pools.
• Strong debugging, observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, operation and cost of production platform on GCP: Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, object storage.
• Reduce costs and latency by tuning infrastructure and scheduling.
• Read and modify Python backend services (FastAPI, Kafka) and fix bugs in application code.
• Address throughput bottlenecks and optimize alerting and incident response.
• Build tooling to access data across regions quickly.
• Maintain IaC (Terraform, Helm) and the deployment path to production.

Skills

Python

Kafka

Kubernetes

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Cloud platforms

Tools

GCP

Docker

AWS

Azure

Job description

Focal Systems, a Silicon Valley startup with a global footprint, seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale the production platform that ingests data from stores across GCP and Kubernetes. You will optimize costs, reduce latency, and collaborate with backend, ML, and edge teams to keep the system performing at scale.

You will troubleshoot production issues, implement IaC with Terraform/Helm, and design tooling for cross-region data access.