Senior Infra Engineer - Kubernetes, Terraform & AWS (Hybrid)

VSCO; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible Time Off

11 paid holidays

Parental, medical and caregiver leave

Tech reimbursements

Job summary

VSCO is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to own the platform used by product and data teams. You will work on AWS, EKS, Terraform, Helm, Flux, and GitOps to ship resilient infrastructure across multiple repos.

You will design production-ready Terraform modules, perform end-to-end cutovers, secure traffic, and optimize AWS resources. Collaboration with product, data, and other infra teams is essential to success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE with hands-on production ownership.
• Strong production experience with Kubernetes/EKS, Linux, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• AWS in production: EKS, IAM/IRSA, networking (VPC, NAT, DNS), and at least one of RDS/MySQL, Elasticache/Valkey, or OpenSearch.
• GitOps and CI/CD in anger: Flux and/or Helm, plus GitHub Actions (self-hosted runners a plus).
• Familiarity with languages for CI builds (Go, Python, Node, Java, Ruby).
• Experience leading technical architecture discussions and driving decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the AWS and EKS platform using Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, and Flux GitOps across infra and app repos.
• Own production cutovers end to end: ingress, DNS, workers, dashboards, and rollback plans.
• Partner with product and data teams on infra ownership and shared wiring to avoid duplication.
• Build and maintain CI/CD on GitHub Actions, including self-hosted runners, image builds, and deploy pipelines.
• Run core data stores and caches as platform services (MySQL, Mongo, Redis, OpenSearch).
• Manage Cloudflare and CloudFront for DNS, CDN, WAF, and domains.
• Monitor and auto-scale with dashboards and external-metrics HPA to prevent paging.
• Review infra PRs and design docs, helping engineers choose the right path for infra ownership.

Skills

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

GitOps

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

Networking

Tools

Helm

Flux

GitHub Actions

OpenSearch

MySQL

Redis

Cloudflare

Job description

VSCO is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to own the platform used by product and data teams. You will work on AWS, EKS, Terraform, Helm, Flux, and GitOps to ship resilient infrastructure across multiple repos.

You will design production-ready Terraform modules, perform end-to-end cutovers, secure traffic, and optimize AWS resources. Collaboration with product, data, and other infra teams is essential to success.