Staff Infra Engineer - Remote-First, Cloud & AI Platform

Motion; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity & benefits

Remote-first / Hybrid

Growth opportunities

Impact on product & team

Award-winning team

Job summary

Motion is seeking a senior software engineer who thrives at the interface of product code and infrastructure. You will shape the per-customer environments, leverage Azure and Pulumi, and ensure reliable, secure runtimes for AI-powered APIs used by our creative platform.

You’ll work in a remote-first, hybrid-enabled team with a strong emphasis on ownership, practical abstractions, and fast delivery in a growing startup setting.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer, with infrastructure focus.
• Strong backend experience; TypeScript/Node.js preferred but priority is engineering judgment.
• Deep hands-on cloud experience; Azure is primary, AWS/GCP transferable.
• Fluency with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or CDK).
• Hands-on containers and runtimes; Docker essential; orchestration knowledge helpful.
• Experience designing reliable systems around queues, migrations, retries, and security.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve systems that provision, update, secure, and observe Motion’s environments.
• Design abstractions around queues, locks, and service bus mechanics for reliability.
• Evolve infrastructure-as-code footprint with Pulumi for reuse by engineers.
• Work with Linux systems, storage, containers, permissions, and runtime debugging.
• Collaborate in a small, high-ownership cross-functional team with weekly cycles.

Skills

6+ years software engineering

Cloud experience

Infrastructure as code

Docker

Kubernetes

Security mindset

Tools

Azure

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CDK

Job description

Motion is seeking a senior software engineer who thrives at the interface of product code and infrastructure. You will shape the per-customer environments, leverage Azure and Pulumi, and ensure reliable, secure runtimes for AI-powered APIs used by our creative platform.

You’ll work in a remote-first, hybrid-enabled team with a strong emphasis on ownership, practical abstractions, and fast delivery in a growing startup setting.