Associate Platform Infrastructure Engineer

impact.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Mental health support

RSUs with 3-year vesting

Coursera access

Parental leave

Tech stipend

Job summary

impact.com is expanding its Shared Services and Infrastructure team in Cape Town to build scalable platform infrastructure. You’ll write production Java code, deploy platform services, and support Kubernetes clusters at scale for 600+ engineers. This role emphasizes IaC, cloud architecture, and strong collaboration.

If you want hands-on experience with cloud-native systems and production reliability, this is the role for you.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Hands-on experience with GCP (primary), AWS or Azure (preferred).
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation, or orchestration concepts (preferred).
• Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform (preferred).
• Experience working in a collaborative engineering environment or internship experience (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Implement platform infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements: translating high-level requests into IaC parameters and production-grade deployments.
• Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters and the networking that connects them, using IaC modules provided by Cloud Operations.
• Help operate and maintain managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) that service teams depend on.
• Consume Cloud Operations' IaC modules and feed back operational lessons and enhancement requests.
• Write production-quality Java code that implements infrastructure abstractions, baking in security and best practices by default.
• Work alongside senior engineers to design and implement infrastructure solutions, learning best practices in cloud architecture, Kubernetes and operational discipline.

Skills

Java

Cloud basics

Linux

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GCP (primary)

AWS

Azure

Job description

About Impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—

About Impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products— Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral) — unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com

You’ll join the Shared Services and Infrastructure team at a critical growth moment for impact.com. As we scale toward 600+ product engineers, the platform infrastructure layer - Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, compute, storage, shared services -is becoming mission-critical. This is a solid starting point for someone who wants to grow into platform and infrastructure engineering. You’ll work closely with senior engineers on the team, implementing infrastructure abstractions, deploying platform services, and learning how production systems work at scale. You’ll write production-quality Java code, operate real infrastructure, and contribute to making sure 600+ developers have a reliable foundation to build on. If you want hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, cloud architecture and building reliable systems, this is the role.

What You’ll Do

• Implement platform infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements: translating high-level requests into IaC parameters and production-grade deployments.
• Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters and the networking that connects them, using IaC modules provided by Cloud Operations.
• Help operate and maintain managed pub/sub messaging systems (e.g. Kafka) that service teams depend on.
• Consume Cloud Operations' IaC modules and feed back operational lessons and enhancement requests.
• Write production-quality Java code that implements infrastructure abstractions, baking in security and best practices by default.
• Work alongside senior engineers to design and implement infrastructure solutions, learning best practices in cloud architecture, Kubernetes and operational discipline.

What You Bring

• Solid software-engineering fundamentals with Java or similar programming experience.
• Familiarity with basic network and cloud computing concepts.
• Comfort with Linux command line and a willingness to learn systems administration basics.
• A genuine interest in how systems work at scale, infrastructure reliability and the details of running production services.
• A collaborative mindset: you’re comfortable learning from more senior engineers and asking questions when you need to.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Hands‑on experience with GCP (primary), AWS or Azure (preferred)
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containerisation, or orchestration concepts (preferred)
• Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform (preferred)
• Experience working in a collaborative engineering environment or internship experience (preferred)

Benefits and Perks

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well‑being, growth, and work‑life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work‑life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well‑being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses.

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.