Infrastructure Engineer
Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Seattle/Bellevue Area, WA$175k - $285kFull-timePosted 5mo ago
About the role
Define the technical direction for the infrastructure platform powering automated manufacturing across multiple factory sites, spanning cloud, edge, and factory-floor systems; build scalable, reusable infrastructure and patterns, and lead architecture decisions with an emphasis on reliability, security, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement cloud infrastructure on AWS using Terraform/OpenTofu
- Build and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS in cloud, K0s/K3s at the edge)
- Build CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
- Develop reusable infrastructure patterns: Terraform modules, Helm charts, CUE schemas
- Architect networking between sites, edge devices, and cloud
- Implement monitoring and observability with Prometheus/Grafana and Datadog
- Support edge computing and IoT device deployments on factory floors
- Drive build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations
- Establish engineering standards and best practices
- Represent infrastructure in cross-functional architecture reviews
- Make architecture decisions under ambiguity and document them as ADRs
- Identify systemic operational gaps and drive automation that eliminates recurring toil
- Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
- Write clear documentation and runbooks
Qualifications
- 8+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering
- Demonstrated ability in infrastructure design across cloud, containers, and networking
- Can go from architecture whiteboard to production implementation, and has done it repeatedly
- Deep Terraform/IaC skills with module development and testing experience
- Production Kubernetes experience including troubleshooting, scaling, and multi-cluster patterns
- Strong security instincts: threat modeling, least privilege, compliance fundamentals
- Track record of building reusable patterns that other engineers adopt
- History of reducing complexity, not just adding capability
- Strong documentation and communication skills
- Comfortable mentoring teammates and sharing knowledge
Skills
Required:Terraform/IaCKubernetesCloud architecture (AWS)
Nice to have:Security
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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