Infrastructure Software Engineer

LinuxCareers; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Office meals in SF

Job summary

depthfirst is building AI-powered security intelligence to detect and remediate software vulnerabilities. This Infrastructure Software Engineer role focuses on building, scaling, and securing the cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure that powers the company's production systems, sandbox management, and workload orchestration.

The role involves building cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters, designing sandbox management services, improving autoscaling and capacity, strengthening security,

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or similar role.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, including workload scheduling, networking, resource management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Strong software engineering skills in a language such as Go, with experience designing, building, and maintaining production services.
• Experience developing distributed systems, including handling concurrency, retries, partial failures, and resource lifecycle management.
• Solid understanding of Linux, containers, networking, and cloud security fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters supporting production systems and engineering teams.
• Design and develop production sandbox management and orchestration services, including APIs and distributed coordination for allocation, isolation, health monitoring, and resource lifecycle management.
• Improve workload scheduling, autoscaling, and capacity management to support growing and variable demand.
• Strengthen infrastructure security through workload isolation, access controls, network policies, and secure configuration.
• Debug production issues across service code, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure, then implement durable fixes.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

Go language

Distributed systems

Linux

Networking

Containers

Cloud security

Tools

AWS

EKS

Helm

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

depthfirst is building AI-powered security intelligence to detect and remediate software vulnerabilities. This Infrastructure Software Engineer role focuses on building, scaling, and securing the cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure that powers the company's production systems, sandbox management, and workload orchestration.

What You'll Do

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters supporting production systems and engineering teams
• Design and develop production sandbox management and orchestration services, including APIs and distributed coordination for allocation, isolation, health monitoring, and resource lifecycle management
• Improve workload scheduling, autoscaling, and capacity management to support growing and variable demand
• Strengthen infrastructure security through workload isolation, access controls, network policies, and secure configuration
• Debug production issues across service code, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure, then implement durable fixes

What You Need

• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and production systems in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, SRE, or similar role
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, including workload scheduling, networking, resource management, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Strong software engineering skills in a language such as Go, with experience designing, building, and maintaining production services
• Experience developing distributed systems, including handling concurrency, retries, partial failures, and resource lifecycle management
• Solid understanding of Linux, containers, networking, and cloud security fundamentals

Nice to Have

• Deep experience with AWS and EKS, Helm, and Terraform or Pulumi
• Experience building infrastructure control planes, Kubernetes controllers, operators, or workload orchestration systems
• Experience with sandboxing, virtualization, or secure execution environments
• Experience building infrastructure for AI platforms, developer tools, or security products

Competitive salary with meaningful equity; health, vision, and dental insurance; office lunch and dinner when working from San Francisco office