Founding Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Our client is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer located in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Own scalability projects end-to-end
• Ship a pre-scoped project within the first 7 days (eg. redis HA)
• Ship a project independently within the first 30 days (eg. new CRD for managing worker pools)
• Build monitoring
• Ship pre-defined monitoring goals within the first 14 days (eg. prometheus rules)
• Ship monitoring independently within the first 30 days (eg. refactor call monitoring to real-time alert on latency spikes)
• Build anti-frangibility into the infrastructure
• Unprompted, build things that make our infrastructure more antifragile (eg. auto multi-cluster rollover).

Tech stack

JavaScript, Kubenetes , Node.js, Rust, TypeScript, Distributed Systems

Candidate requirements

• 5+ years of experience in engineering, with 2+ years of experience in infrastructure
• Minimum 1 year of experience at a fast-paced company of <100 ppl
• Experience with Kubernetes, Pulumi, or scaling other distributed systems
• Previous experience as a Founding/Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer
• Game to work with the team 6 days/week in SF

The salary range is $140,000 - $240,000 + Equity