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Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure

Profound· Engineering
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New York, New York, San Francisco, California$175k - $260kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Infrastructure Engineer at Profound responsible for building and scaling core infrastructure to support rapid growth, ensuring high availability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability across cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain core infrastructure across cloud environments
  • Build infrastructure-as-code workflows to automate deployments and scaling
  • Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability
  • Manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments
  • Support disaster recovery planning and ensure high availability of systems
  • Partner with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands
  • Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking
  • Implement security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience with cloud platforms, with AWS preferred
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
  • Deep experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes
  • Solid understanding of distributed architectures
  • Programming proficiency in Python and Rust, or willingness to learn Rust quickly
  • Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments
  • Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment
  • Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
  • Database scaling and optimization experience
  • Observability and monitoring expertise
  • Network architecture and performance tuning experience
  • Security and compliance experience

Skills

Required:AWSTerraformDockerKubernetesPythonRustObservabilitySecurity & Compliance

Benefits

  • Base salary range: $175,000 to $260,000 ( NYC / SF )
  • Equity
  • Full range of benefits and perks
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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