Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Axion; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous time off

Competitive compensation and equity

Lunch stipend

Job summary

Axion is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in New York, NY, responsible for scaling their cloud infrastructure and ensuring system security and reliability. You will design CI/CD pipelines, manage Kubernetes orchestration, and collaborate closely with engineering teams. The ideal candidate has over 4 years in DevOps and hands-on experience with GCP and Terraform. The role offers a competitive compensation package, generous time off, and opportunities for professional development in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes for cluster management and troubleshooting.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Axion’s cloud infrastructure on GCP.
• Own and evolve the Kubernetes‑based container orchestration platform.
• Establish and maintain observability across the stack.

Skills

GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub)

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)

Job description

About the Role

We’re seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to shape and scale our cloud infrastructure. You’ll design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployment workflows, ensure system reliability and security, and support rapid development cycles. This hands‑on role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced, high‑impact environment and is excited to build foundational DevOps systems from the ground up. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership to drive infrastructure decisions and enable product teams to ship faster with confidence. Must reside in EST or CST.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Axion’s cloud infrastructure on GCP, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security
• Own and evolve our Kubernetes‑based container orchestration platform and Terraform infrastructure‑as‑code practices
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and deployment automation to help engineering teams ship with speed and confidence
• Establish and maintain observability across our stack—logging, metrics, alerting, and tracing—and lead incident response efforts
• Define and track SLOs and SLIs, driving a culture of reliability and continuous improvement
• Contribute to security hardening, compliance posture, and cost optimization across our cloud environment

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering
• Deep hands‑on experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, or similar services)
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes—cluster management, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Solid Terraform experience—writing modular, reusable, production‑grade infrastructure‑as‑code
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Strong background in observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent)
• Comfortable operating in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments with a bias toward action
• Experience at a venture‑backed startup preferred
• Must be based in the Eastern or Central time zones

Nice to Haves

• Experience using agents to accelerate delivery
• Experience managing infrastructure for FedRAMP environments

Who You Are

You’re a builder and operator who thrives in fast‑moving, high‑accountability environments. You take pride in getting things done thoughtfully, efficiently, and without drama. You’re energized by ambiguity, skilled at bringing clarity, and comfortable flexing between strategy and execution.

You value feedback—giving it, receiving it, and acting on it—and you see collaboration as a competitive advantage, not a burden. You’re low‑ego but high‑agency: you care about winning as a team more than being right individually. You move quickly, communicate directly, and make decisions grounded in impact and data.

You don’t need constant direction—you create momentum. You take ownership for outcomes, and you expect the same from those around you.

What We Offer

• Work with cutting‑edge AI technology making a tangible impact in manufacturing
• Collaborative, mission‑driven team and supportive leadership
• Generous time off
• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits
• Lunch stipend and more

Axion is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.