Senior Cloud Infra Engineer - AI & Kubernetes Security

Arena; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health, dental, vision benefits

Cutting-edge AI projects

Transparent culture

Job summary

Arena Intelligence is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to drive the strategy and execution of the platform that runs Arena. You’ll own the infra, enabling apps, API, and AI agents across clouds, while ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-conscious operations.

You’ll collaborate with product, research, data, and security to uphold fast build cycles and reliable performance. You’ll lead identity and access design, implement IaC practices, and guide the infrastructure team as we scale our

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with GCP and/or AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Experience with cloud identity, IAM, secrets management, and key rotation.
• Experience running serverless or edge platforms and knowing when to use them.
• Experience with queues, workflows, or durable execution systems for long-running tasks.
• Proven ability to lead infrastructure incidents and implement lasting improvements.

Responsibilities

• Own Arena's cloud architecture end to end: hosting, compute, networking, and infra.
• Decide hosting/workload strategy, including serverless/edge, containers, and durable workflows.
• Build identity and access controls securely and at scale.
• Design network boundaries, private connectivity, and egress controls for data.
• Manage infrastructure as code with CI/CD and clear ownership.
• Establish reliability practices: SLOs, monitoring, on-call, and post-incident follow-through.
• Help grow and mentor the infrastructure team.

Skills

GCP/AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

IAM & Secrets

SRE/Incident

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Cloud Run

Postgres

Vercel

Job description

Arena Intelligence is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to drive the strategy and execution of the platform that runs Arena. You’ll own the infra, enabling apps, API, and AI agents across clouds, while ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-conscious operations.

You’ll collaborate with product, research, data, and security to uphold fast build cycles and reliable performance. You’ll lead identity and access design, implement IaC practices, and guide the infrastructure team as we scale our