Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Scale & Observability

kustomer; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401K

Stock options

Generous vacation policy

Job summary

Kustomer is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our Foundation team. You will build systems and abstractions used across the company, focusing on developer experience, observability, and architectural improvements in backend components including database sharding, event bus performance, and scalable search, aimed at reducing end-to-end latency.

You will work 50% on backend systems and 50% on infrastructure, with opportunities to mentor others and drive impactful changes across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives and key projects with the team.
• Improve scalability, performance, and availability of systems.
• Plan and execute large-scale system changes to meet business objectives.
• Design well-architected solutions for ambiguous engineering problems.
• Collaborate across teams to drive engineering best practices and security/compliance.

Skills

Distributed web apps

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Go

Python

JavaScript

MongoDB experience

System architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

MongoDB

Terraform

Kafka

Kinesis

Elasticsearch

Job description

Kustomer is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our Foundation team. You will build systems and abstractions used across the company, focusing on developer experience, observability, and architectural improvements in backend components including database sharding, event bus performance, and scalable search, aimed at reducing end-to-end latency.

You will work 50% on backend systems and 50% on infrastructure, with opportunities to mentor others and drive impactful changes across