Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer

Agora

United States

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Agora seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and build Agora's internal platform, enabling product teams to ship software with confidence, reliability, and speed. You will contribute a software engineering mindset to infrastructure—creating reusable abstractions, services, tooling, and platform primitives that reduce cognitive load for both product and Infrastructure teams.

You will own core platform components such as our TypeScript Pulumi codebase, Kubernetes runtime environments,

Qualifications

5+ years of professional Software Engineering experience, including substantial work in Infrastructure and Cloud domains.
Strong programming skills in TypeScript or another strictly typed language
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (availability, consistency, observability, fault tolerance)
Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code systems
Deep understanding of AWS architecture
Experience designing, operating, and scaling Kubernetes workloads
Proven ability to build reusable systems and abstractions rather than one-off scripts

Responsibilities

Design and build Agora's internal platform that enables product teams to ship software with confidence, reliability, and speed.
Own core platform components such as the TypeScript Pulumi codebase, Kubernetes-based runtime environments, and the monitoring stack.
Architect scalable systems, enforce engineering standards through code, and improve developer experience with platform capabilities.