Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

present of AI; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Restate is seeking a hands-on cloud infrastructure lead responsible for the durable execution platform backing multi-tenant SaaS, self-hosted installs, and BYOC deployments. You will own the design through live operations, including on-call, with deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud automation.

The role emphasizes building reliable, scale-out infrastructure, elegant failure handling, and automation to reduce toil.

Qualifications

• Hands-on ownership from design through live operations, including on-call.
• Experience with large-scale production platform infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud automation.
• Proficiency in Rust, Go, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud infrastructure and control plane for a durable execution platform.
• Support multi-tenant SaaS, self-hosted installs, and bring-your-own cloud setups.
• Automate toil and manage on-call rotations with reliability-first mindset.
• Collaborate across teams to evolve the platform architecture.

Skills

Kubernetes

Rust

Go

C++

On-call ownership

Distributed infra

Job description

This role owns the cloud infrastructure and control plane behind a durable execution platform, spanning multi tenant SaaS, self hosted installs, and bring your own cloud setups. A strong candidate has run large scale production platform infrastructure, knows Kubernetes and cloud automation deeply, and writes solid code in Rust, Go, or C++. The job expects hands on ownership from design through live operations, including on call, and comfort working with little structure.

How it fits the AI era

AI agents and workflows are becoming long running and stateful, so the reliability layer underneath them matters more than the application logic on top. This role builds that layer, making crashes and dropped connections a platform problem rather than something each developer handles. The human core stays in designing systems that hold up under failure and judging tradeoffs in distributed infrastructure, while routine operational toil can be automated.

How it builds AI experience

Working here means building the infrastructure that production AI agents and workflows run on, so the experience gained is in durable execution and stateful orchestration at scale. A candidate can prepare by studying how workflow runtimes recover state and by getting hands on with Kubernetes operators and multi tenant control planes. Familiarity with durable execution concepts helps, though the posting treats it as a nice to have rather than a requirement.

Worth showing

• Large scale SaaS operations
• Infrastructure as code
• Rust Go or C++
• Production on call ownership

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About Restate

Restate provides a durable execution runtime that records what a program has already done so it can continue correctly after crashes, restarts, or dropped connections, per the company.