Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Triple Whale; Lancaster (OH); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Triple Whale is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team in the New York metro area. You will own and scale our backend services, design reliable systems, and help other developers with complex infrastructure from conception to production.

This coding role involves on-call rotations, Kubernetes, databases, and cloud platforms. You’ll collaborate across teams to improve observability, tooling, and velocity, while delivering robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience as an independent backend or infrastructure engineer.
• Ability to design and build scalable, reliable systems.
• Strong communication skills.
• Hands-on builder mentality — this is a coding role.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Major Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), GCP is an advantage.
• Streaming systems.
• Scaling large systems.
• Message queues.
• Monitoring systems like DataDog, Grafana, Groundcover.
• CI/CD, Git.
• Bonus Skills: Kubernetes and Knative (production experience) & ClickHouse.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and support our service infrastructure in Kubernetes
• Identify the right tools and technologies for major initiatives and then build them
• Help other teams and developers design robust and scalable systems.
• Scale and optimize multiple databases
• Build internal tooling that accelerates developer velocity
• Provide observability, monitoring, and visibility across our systems
• On-call rotation participation as described in postings

Skills

Backend engineering

Infrastructure engineering

6+ years experience

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Knative

ClickHouse

DataDog

Grafana

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Git

GitHub

GCP Build Infrastructure

GitHub Actions

Knative

Kubernetes

Temporal

Pulumi

ClickHouse

Job description

Triple Whale is seeking a Senior Cloud Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team in the New York metro area. You will own and scale our backend services, design reliable systems, and help other developers with complex infrastructure from conception to production.

This coding role involves on-call rotations, Kubernetes, databases, and cloud platforms. You’ll collaborate across teams to improve observability, tooling, and velocity, while delivering robust, scalable solutions.