Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Harakumo; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-first

Quarterly NYC meetups

Direct access to founder

Job summary

Harakumo is hiring to keep its edge infrastructure fast, reliable and affordable as we grow. You will own the deploy pipeline and the runner that builds and serves customer apps, including free apps that sleep and wake, and you will scale capacity across databases and containers to meet user demand.

We value calm incident habits, with clear post-incident reporting, and you will contribute to observability with logs, uptime alerts and truthful health checks.

Qualifications

• Must have production infra experience with containers/CDNs/edge platforms and related networking.
• Experience performing safe SQL migrations on live data.
• Strong incident handling and post-incident documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Own the deploy pipeline and the runner that builds and serves customer apps.
• Scale capacity, database throughput, container slots, and a central control database.
• Build observability: logs, uptime alerts, health checks that reflect reality.
• Keep costs measured and validated; perform backups and run restore drills.

Skills

Production infra experience

SQL

Live data migrations

Incident response

Tools

Containers

CDNs/edge platforms

DNS/TLS

Job description

Keep Harakumo fast, reliable and affordable as it grows: deploys, containers for server apps, edge databases, provisioning, migrations, observability and cost.

• Own the deploy pipeline and the runner that builds and serves customer apps, including free apps that sleep and wake
• Scale the walls before users hit them: address capacity, database throughput, container slots, one control database
• Build observability: logs for functions and apps, uptime alerts, health checks that tell the truth
• Keep costs measured and capped, and backups tested with restore drills

What you bring

• Real production experience running infrastructure: containers, CDNs or edge platforms, DNS, TLS
• SQL and safe schema migrations on live data
• Calm incident habits: you find the cause, fix it, and write down what happened
• Bonus: edge runtimes, multi-tenant platforms, cost engineering

What we offer

• Competitive salary and early-team equity (discussed in the first conversation)
• Remote-first, async-friendly; quarterly in-person in NYC
• Your own platform to shape, with direct access to the founder