Senior Infrastructure Engineer

DT; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Turbine is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate large-scale distributed systems and data platforms, enabling reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient operations across the OneDT initiative. This role focuses on building a robust platform with strong emphasis on observability and automation.

You will help migrate to GitOps/ArgoCD, develop unified CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to ML and data infrastructure in collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure or backend engineering building robust distributed systems.
• Deep cloud experience (AWS or GCP; Azure a plus) with Go, Java, Python, or Scala.
• Hands-on Kubernetes infrastructure experience.
• Experience with data/ML infra: Spark, Kafka, Databricks or similar.
• IaC, CI/CD, GitOps, and modern observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems and data platforms.
• Drive OneDT standardization: GitOps/ArgoCD and unified CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including Spark-on-K8s.
• Implement ML and data-pipeline tooling and workflows.
• Champion observability, automation, and cost optimization; lead on-call rotations.
• Participate in incident response and blameless postmortems.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Scala

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

On-call

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

CI/CD tools

Job description

At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers — intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

Digital Turbine is a hybrid work environment-only candidates local to the posting location will be considered.

We’re always on the lookout for great engineering talent!

We want to learn about your passion and skills, and find the best match for you.

The Role

The Tech Platform organization maintains and evolves the foundational platform and shared services that every other DT workstream depends on. As we assemble siloed products into a single marketplace, getting the platform right — reliable, observable, standardized, and cost-efficient — is the critical variable for execution at marketplace scale.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll design and operate the large-scale distributed systems, data infrastructure, and deployment platforms that serve tens of billions of daily events. You'll help drive our OneDT standardization — including the migration to GitOps/ArgoCD and unified CI/CD — and build the platform capabilities (including ML and data infrastructure) that the rest of engineering builds on.

About The Senior Infrastructure Engineer Role

• Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems and data platforms for reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency
• Drive the OneDT platform standardization: GitOps/ArgoCD adoption, unified CI/CD pipelines, and a clear developer-ownership model across business lines
• Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including Spark-on-K8s and data/ML platform tooling (e.g., Databricks ecosystems)
• Implement MLOps and data-pipeline capabilities — training, deployment, and serving infrastructure — in partnership with ML and Data teams
• Champion observability, automation, and cost-optimization initiatives that improve reliability while reducing spend
• Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response and blameless postmortems, and prevent recurrence through automation and platform improvements

About You As The Senior Infrastructure Engineer

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform, or back-end engineering, with a track record of building robust distributed systems
• Deep experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or GCP; Azure a plus) and proficiency in Go, Java, Python, or Scala
• Strong hands‑on experience building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure stacks.
• Familiarity with data and/or ML infrastructure: Spark, Kafka, data lakes, Databricks, or comparable technologies
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, GitOps, and modern observability tooling
• Operational maturity: you've owned production systems, run on‑call, and improved reliability systematically

Nice to have

• Experience leading large migrations or platform‑standardization programs across multiple teams
• Background in high‑throughput, low‑latency systems such as real‑time bidding or event streaming
• Experience with cost governance (FinOps) at scale

About Digital Turbine

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world’s leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Our end‑to‑end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization — connecting our partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities around the world, serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets.

We are honored to have achieved numerous awards as an employer of choice, around the world, including: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work Awards in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech for 2023 and 2024, and BDICode's 100 Best Companies to Work in 2024.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.

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