Infrastructure Engineer (Early Career)

Expo; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equipment budget

Competitive compensation

Equity package

Flexible schedule

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Continuous learning budget

Conference opportunities

Job summary

Expo, Inc. is seeking an early-career engineer to join our infrastructure team and collaborate with a senior engineer. You will learn to design, build, and operate the backend infrastructure behind our developer-facing services on our Linux fleet and cloud foundation.

You’ll contribute by writing software that runs reliably, is well-tested, and is monitored. You’ll own your code, participate in on-call rotations, and explore areas from operating systems to distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux, containers, and writing small services.
• Some cloud experience (Google Cloud preferred, AWS/Azure also valuable).
• Knowledge from operating systems, networks, databases, and distributed systems courses or self-learning.

Responsibilities

• Join EAS’s infrastructure team as an early-career engineer, working alongside a senior engineer.
• Learn to design, build, and operate the backend infrastructure behind our developer-facing services, on our Linux fleet and cloud foundation.
• Build internal improvements that make our services easier to manage, faster, and cheaper to run, and make Expo a better place to work.
• Write software that runs correctly and efficiently, and own its uptime and performance.
• Own the code you write: add tests and monitoring, and join your team’s on-call rotation.
• You’re curious about Linux, containers, and writing small services, and you have some experience with each.

Job description

Behind EAS are web services and infrastructure that serve both developers and their end users. Developers rely on EAS to build their own apps and making our backend infrastructure for building apps, running CI/CD workflows, serving app updates, and web hosting reliable is one of the ways we build developer trust. We're looking for engineers early in their career to come work with us on EAS's infrastructure and help us provide developers with new services, scale to their workloads, and continuously improve performance and efficiency.

• Join EAS’s infrastructure team as an early-career engineer, working alongside a senior engineer.
• Learn to design, build, and operate the backend infrastructure behind our developer-facing services, on our Linux fleet and cloud foundation.
• Build internal improvements that make our services easier to manage, faster, and cheaper to run, and make Expo a better place to work.
• Write software that runs correctly and efficiently, and own its uptime and performance.
• Own the code you write: add tests and monitoring, and join your team’s on-call rotation.
• You’re curious about Linux, containers, and writing small services, and you have some experience with each.
• You’ve built something real, end to end, with users or real load on it.
• You’re comfortable with virtual machines and containers.
• You have cloud experience. We use Google Cloud, but deep experience with AWS, Azure, or a home lab carries over well.
• You have the knowledge taught in courses on operating systems, networks, databases, and distributed systems, whether you learned it in school or on your own.
• You’ve gone deep on at least one low-level area: the operating system, the network, a cloud, or the deploy path.
• You’re comfortable writing code and want to write a lot more of it.
• Bonus: systems-level knowledge of macOS or networking.
• You make sound decisions on your own and bring new, effective ideas to improve how app software is built and distributed.
• You write services that stay healthy long after you’ve moved on to your next project.
• You respond quickly to teammates so Expo keeps making fast, steady progress.
• You get yourself unstuck and help others get unstuck too.
• You know why well-designed tools and APIs matter, and you ship well-designed, well-tested features quickly.
• You communicate ideas and code clearly through documentation, GitHub reviews, blog posts, and other writing.
• You understand the problems and goals of Expo’s users and think about them every day.
• You use agents for real work every day, and you can explain what you checked before you trusted the result.
• You get better every week. You’re curious and focused, and you own what you run.

Expo is agentic mobile infrastructure for building, shipping, and running native apps for iOS, Android, and the web. Millions of developers and AI agents use Expo’s open-source framework and cloud services to go from idea to production, with tools to build, submit to the app stores, ship over-the-air updates, and monitor performance and crashes at scale. Founded in 2015, Expo is on a mission to make great software development accessible to everyone.

We offer competitive compensation and a supportive environment to help you do your best work:

• Compensation: Competitive salary + equity package.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with company matching - U.S. only.
• Equipment budget: $6,000 to set up your ideal work setup (laptop, monitor, etc.).
• Flexible schedule: We care about outcomes, not 9-to-5 hours. Adjust your work schedule to when you’re most productive.
• Flexible PTO: Take the time you need - employees average about 17 days off per year (in addition to regional holidays).
• Parental leave: 12-week fully paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Continuous learning: Annual budget for courses, books, or training to invest in your professional development.
• Community & Growth: Opportunities to speak at conferences, represent Expo at industry events, and attend regional meetups with the team.

Expo is a distributed team that works mostly during North American hours. We are hiring across the United States.

You’ll learn about our team and we’ll learn about you to see where you’d fit in. We’ll also discuss your experience and what you’re looking for in your next role.

Interview with the team

You’ll meet with a few members of the team to discuss your experience, technical skills, and how you’d approach the role. Typically this is done over four 45m video calls that occur over a few days.

Once we’ve decided to move forward, we’ll make you an offer. We’ll discuss the details of the offer and answer any questions you have.