Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Socket.dev; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)

Launch Attendance

Generous Time Off Policy

Education Assistance Program

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Family Leave

Fitness Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Healthy snacks & beverages in every оф

Job summary

Spire Global is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to support our internal developer platform built on AWS. This hands-on role focuses on platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience.

You will work across infrastructure, security, IT, and software teams to improve platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer productivity. The role requires 2–3+ years in cloud infrastructure or similar roles, with strong AWS/EKS experience.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role.
• Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues.
• Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows.
• Good communication skills and a customer-focused mindset.
• Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of AWS spend across platform-owned infrastructure and developer workloads.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and implement changes to reduce spend while preserving reliability and developer experience.
• Support migration of workloads onto our internal developer platform.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers.
• Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling.
• Help build and maintain code libraries, templates, and integrations for easier instrumentation and observability.
• Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across AWS EKS, VPC/subnets, networking, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Grafana, OpenSearch, and related tools.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitOps workflows

Observability basics

Programming for dev workflows

Communication skills

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Grafana

OpenSearch

Karpenter

Calico

Gatekeeper

OpenTelemetry

Job description

About the role: Due to increased demand, we're looking to hire a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to join our team supporting our internal developer platform built on AWS. This is a hands-on role for someone with a few years of relevant experience who wants to grow in platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and developer experience.

This role is a good fit for someone who wants to grow beyond day-to-day platform support and into a broader platform engineering career. You'll have exposure to both infrastructure and developer workflows, with a chance to make a real impact on cloud cost, platform reliability, and developer productivity.

You'll partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, IT, and Spire's software development teams to improve how our platform runs, how our developers ship software, and how efficiently we spend it on AWS.

What you'll do

• Lead analysis of AWS spend across both platform-owned infrastructure and developer team workloads
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and help implement changes that reduce spend without sacrificing reliability or developer experience
• Support migration of existing workloads onto our newest internal developer platform
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers, primarily software developers and IT/Security engineers
• Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling
• Help build and maintain code libraries, templates, and integrations that make it easier for application teams to instrument and observe their systems
• Work with platform observability and delivery tooling across:
• AWS EKS
• AWS networking (VPC, subnets, TGW, load balancers, routing) and security (Security Groups, NACLs)
• GitHub and GitHub Actions
• ArgoCD
• JFrog Artifactory and X-Ray
• Grafana Enterprise, Alloy, Mimir, Tempo
• OpenSearch
• Karpenter
• Calico
• Gatekeeper
• OpenCost

What we're looking for

• 2–3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role
• Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues
• Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
• Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general-purpose languages to support developer workflows
• Good communication skills and a customer-focused mindset
• Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams

Nice to have

• Experience with cost optimization in AWS or Kubernetes environments
• Experience with ArgoCD or similar GitOps tools
• Experience with Grafana ecosystem tooling
• Familiarity with policy and admission control tools like Gatekeeper
• Experience with Kubernetes networking or traffic policy tools like Calico
• Experience supporting internal developer platforms or platform product teams
• Experience with Open-Telemetry or application instrumentation patterns
• Certification as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Certified CloudOps Engineer is an asset

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three business days per week in the office.

Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Final base salary for this role will be based on the location, skills, experience and qualifications. In addition to base compensation, this role may be eligible for annual equity awards and our employee benefits program, including vacation, sick, and personal time off; optional medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage; a 401(K) plan; health and wellness reimbursement program; and participation in Spire's Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Salary Range

$130,000—$171,000 USD

Global Perks

• Name Your Satellite Program (NYSP)
• Launch Attendance
• Generous Time Off Policy
• Education Assistance Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Family Leave
• Fitness Reimbursement
• Employee Referral Program
• Healthy snacks & beverages in every office

About Spire

We improve life on Earth with data from space.

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud analytics company that owns and operates the largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. Its proprietary data and algorithms provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking in the world. In addition to its constellation, Spire's data infrastructure includes a global ground station network and 24/7 operations that provide real-time global coverage of every point on Earth.

Spire is Global and our success draws upon the diverse viewpoints, skills and experiences of our employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.

To help maintain a safe and secure workplace for Spire employees, all candidates who receive a conditional offer will be required to complete a background check. This may include criminal history and employment verification.