Infrastructure Engineer - Scale & Platform Automation

People Culture Talent; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent partners with venture-backed technology companies to build scalable cloud infrastructure and production systems. This role focuses on reliability, performance, and developer productivity while crafting platforms and tooling for engineering teams to operate at scale.

You will design, implement, and operate infrastructure across cloud environments, automate provisioning, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance reliability, speed, and cost.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production infrastructure at meaningful scale.
• Strong knowledge of modern cloud environments and infrastructure technologies.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, or related tooling.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills.
• An understanding of distributed systems, networking, reliability, and production operations.
• A pragmatic approach to balancing reliability, scalability, developer experience, and cost.
• Strong ownership and an interest in solving foundational technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud and production infrastructure.
• Improve the reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of production systems.
• Build internal platforms and tooling that improve developer productivity and deployment velocity.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and incident-response systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Partner with application, security, data, and product engineering teams on infrastructure requirements.
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks as products and engineering organizations scale.
• Help establish infrastructure architecture, standards, and operational best practices.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability

Automation

Distributed systems

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

People Culture Talent partners with venture-backed technology companies to build scalable cloud infrastructure and production systems. This role focuses on reliability, performance, and developer productivity while crafting platforms and tooling for engineering teams to operate at scale.

You will design, implement, and operate infrastructure across cloud environments, automate provisioning, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to balance reliability, speed, and cost.