Cloud & Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineer for AI Security

DepthFirst; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with equity

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Office lunch and dinner in San Francis

Direct ownership of foundational.*

Work at the cutting edge of AI and **?

Job summary

depthfirst is seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build, scale, and secure the infrastructure that powers depthfirst. You’ll own cloud and Kubernetes environments, production sandboxes, orchestrations, and compute resource lifecycle management.

This role combines deep infrastructure expertise with hands-on software engineering to design and develop infrastructure services and APIs, improve reliability and security, and strengthen compute environments.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, including workload scheduling, networking, resource management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with deployment architectures such as SaaS, BYOC, air-gapped, etc.
• Strong software engineering skills in Go, with designing, building, and maintaining production services.
• Experience developing distributed systems with concurrency, retries, partial failures, and lifecycle management.
• Solid understanding of Linux, containers, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production observability.
• Ability to reason about tradeoffs between reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational complexity.
• Ownership from design through deployment and ongoing operation.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work through ambiguous problems with other engineers.
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters for production systems and engineering teams.
• Design and develop production sandbox management and orchestration services, APIs, and distributed coordination for allocation, isolation, health monitoring, failure recovery, and lifecycle management.
• Improve workload scheduling, autoscaling, and capacity management to support growing demand.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through workload isolation, access controls, network policies, and secure configuration.
• Improve performance and cost efficiency by reducing startup latency and addressing bottlenecks.
• Build observability and operational tooling to help engineers understand system behavior.
• Debug production issues across service code, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure, then implement durable fixes.
• Improve infrastructure as code, deployment pipelines, and upgrade processes to ensure reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Linux

Security fundamentals

Observability

Communication

Ownership

Tools

AWS

EKS

Helm

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

depthfirst is seeking an Infrastructure Software Engineer to build, scale, and secure the infrastructure that powers depthfirst. You’ll own cloud and Kubernetes environments, production sandboxes, orchestrations, and compute resource lifecycle management.

This role combines deep infrastructure expertise with hands-on software engineering to design and develop infrastructure services and APIs, improve reliability and security, and strengthen compute environments.