Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Hud; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% covered medical, dental, vision

Lunch and dinner in office

Holiday break on top of PTO

Equinox membership

401k

Commuter benefits

Unlimited tokens for AI tools

Job summary

HUD is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD's core infrastructure and backend systems. This role blends production infrastructure with backend engineering judgment across service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, and deployment safety.

Responsibilities include owning uptime and latency, building AWS infrastructure with Terraform/Kubernetes, designing scalable systems, and improving observability and

Qualifications

• Own production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability platform.
• Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containers; Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management.
• Experience building CI/CD, environment management, observability, and incident response.
• Strong backend judgment across architecture, APIs, databases, and queues.

Responsibilities

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infra cost, and incident response.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management.
• Design systems for scale: capacity planning, autoscaling, queues, backpressure, retries, and rollback paths.
• Define dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows.
• Build CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows.
• Write clean code to automate systems and create internal tooling.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure ownership

AWS expertise

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

CI/CD automation

Observability & incident response

Backend service architecture

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes/EKS

Docker

EC2

CodeBuild

ECR

S3

IAM

Load Balancers

Networking

Job description

About HUD

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We've raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD's core infrastructure and backend systems.

This is not a pure infrastructure role. The right person has strong production infra experience, but also thinks like a backend engineer: they can reason about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and how product requirements translate into resilient systems. You'll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on.

Responsibilities

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
• Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly
• Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk
• Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling

Experience

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
• Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management is strongly preferred
• Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
• Have strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
• Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms
• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services
• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability
• Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster without hiding too much complexity

We prioritize technical aptitude, ownership, and learning potential over years of experience.

Team & company details

• Team Size: ~25 people currently, mostly full-time in-person, but some remote.
• Our team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.
• Company stage: We have 8 figures in funding and are scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.

Logistics

• Employment: Full-time.
• Location: We have offices in San Francisco or Singapore but are open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.
• Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.
• Timeline: Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)
• Lunch and dinner when you're in the office (in-office employees)
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year's Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits (US employees)
• Unlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. *By unlimited, we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.

Due to high volume, we may not actively respond to every application, but feel free to contact us at [e-mail] or elsewhere if we missed your application!