Remote-First Infra Platform Engineer

Knock; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Knock is seeking an infrastructure engineer to join our small but growing platform team. You will own the core services and infrastructure that run Knock, with high autonomy and accountability to improve reliability and scale.

You will work with Terraform-backed EKS, Postgres, and various queues, while enhancing telemetry via Datadog, CloudWatch, and Honeycomb. Join a remote-first team with NYC base and a strong culture of documentation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of DevOps or similar in startups or mid-sized teams.
• Hands-on with production Kubernetes clusters and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Experience with AWS deployments and multi-account architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own core platform infrastructure to improve reliability and scalability.
• Embrace elastic scaling, observability, and incident response practices.
• Collaborate on runbooks, postmortems, and internal docs.
• Work across telemetry tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, Honeycomb) to identify bottlenecks.
• Support on-call rotations and cross-team initiatives.
• Contribute to deployment pipelines (blue/green, canaries) and automation.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Reliability

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

AWS CloudWatch

Honeycomb

Job description

Knock is seeking an infrastructure engineer to join our small but growing platform team. You will own the core services and infrastructure that run Knock, with high autonomy and accountability to improve reliability and scale.

You will work with Terraform-backed EKS, Postgres, and various queues, while enhancing telemetry via Datadog, CloudWatch, and Honeycomb. Join a remote-first team with NYC base and a strong culture of documentation.