Infrastructure Engineer

Natural; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Natural is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the systems that power our platform. You’ll shape cloud architecture, mesh networking, event pipelines, webhook delivery, and CI/CD with a focus on production reliability and resilience.

You will collaborate with senior engineers to design robust systems and improve incident response, observability, and retries. This role emphasizes pragmatic engineering and performance in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable cloud systems.
• Hands-on with distributed event pipelines and retry/idempotency.
• Strong focus on production reliability and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate core infrastructure that powers all systems.
• Design and maintain cloud architectures and network fabrics.
• Implement robust CI/CD pipelines for production readiness.
• Improve observability, incident response, and fault tolerance.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Mesh networking

Event pipelines

Webhook delivery

CI/CD

Observability

Reliability engineering

Tools

Datadog

Job description

You will build and operate the systems that everything else runs on. Cloud architecture, mesh networking, event pipelines, webhook delivery, CI/CD, and production reliability. Every edge case matters. Retries, idempotency, observability, and incident response aren't afterthoughts, they're core to how you think.

As an Infrastructure Engineer , you will work closest with:

Eric Wang

An engineer’s engineer, Eric thinks as much about systems design as he does philosophy. Neither has made him more fun at parties.

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Klaire came from Nextdoor and can't stop talking about sealed classes and Kotlin when clauses. Makes a mean matcha latte.

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Eric Jubber

Eric spent his career between Amazon, Ivella, and Superpower. He loves gluten and seed oils.

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Chika worked at Stripe and Notion before joining Natural. He's undoubtedly the best dressed engineer on the team.

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Lovingly referred to as Bhardog for his obsession with leading SaaS-based observability platform Datadog.

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