Senior Cloud Infra Engineer — Kubernetes, Kafka & Go (Stock Options)

Linuxconfig; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Stock options

Job summary

Formal is building a network security platform for the AI era, handling billions of requests daily. We seek a production-grade cloud infra engineer to move us toward Kubernetes, improve reliability, and optimize data services across cloud and on-prem deployments.

You will own Terraform-driven provisioning, scale Kafka-to-Quickwit ingestion, and enhance CI/CD; join a small, capable team focused on robust, scalable infrastructure for our customers.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud using Terraform.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, ingress, autoscaling, and upgrades.
• Strong Linux networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, and load balancing.
• Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or another relevant programming language.
• Experience with CI/CD, observability, and operating data pipelines or distributed APIs in production.
• A track record of automating operational work and owning services through incidents and upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Lead our migration to Kubernetes and operate reliable clusters, networking, access controls, and data services.
• Scale Kafka-to-Quickwit ingestion and search; improve throughput, indexing lag, API latency, and storage costs.
• Build repeatable on-prem installations and upgrades, including configuration, data migrations, and rollback.
• Establish useful alerts and reliability targets; lead incident response and eliminate recurring failures.
• Automate provisioning with Terraform and Helm; improve CI/CD, capacity planning, backups, and recovery.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes operations

Linux networking

Go

Python

Rust

CI/CD practices

Observability

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Helm

PostgreSQL

Temporal

Bazel

CI runners

Job description

Formal is building a network security platform for the AI era, handling billions of requests daily. We seek a production-grade cloud infra engineer to move us toward Kubernetes, improve reliability, and optimize data services across cloud and on-prem deployments.

You will own Terraform-driven provisioning, scale Kafka-to-Quickwit ingestion, and enhance CI/CD; join a small, capable team focused on robust, scalable infrastructure for our customers.