Staff Infra Engineer: Scale, Reliability & Cloud Networking

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our global container and cloud infrastructure. You will drive scale, reliability, and performance across multiple product teams and coordinate with backend and platform engineers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, steer technical decisions, and help shape the roadmap for distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud services, ensuring secure, resilient operations at internet scale.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• 15+ years of professional experience in a software development or devops automation role
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience leading cross-team projects
• Strong engineering background in distributed infrastructure services
• Experience optimizing reliability and security of distributed systems
• Experience with scaling and migrating systems with little to no downtime
• Experience mentoring engineers at various stages in their careers
• Experience using major cloud providers - AWS/Azure/OCI/Google
• Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems
• Experience with ops culture and metrics, alarms, dashboards

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, build, and maintain container infrastructure used by all the company service teams
• Lead technical conversations and decision making with other infrastructure and backend teams
• Mentor and grow the next generation of technical leaders at the company
• Participate in roadmap planning and prioritisation
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Work on scaling, automation, reliability and observability of infrastructure services
• Identify the shared compute needs across the company and prioritise solutions

Skills

Kubernetes

Networking

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS)

Leadership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design and evolution of our global container and cloud infrastructure. You will drive scale, reliability, and performance across multiple product teams and coordinate with backend and platform engineers worldwide.

You will mentor engineers, steer technical decisions, and help shape the roadmap for distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud services, ensuring secure, resilient operations at internet scale.