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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

HUD· Engineering & Research
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San Francisco, Singapore, Remote (Asia), Remote (North America)$105k - $260kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure responsible for reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems; combines production infra focus with backend engineering considerations.

Responsibilities

  • Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
  • Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
  • Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
  • Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly
  • Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk
  • Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling

Qualifications

  • Own production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
  • Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management
  • Built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
  • Strong backend engineering judgment and ability to reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows

Skills

Required:Production cloud infrastructureAWSTerraformKubernetes/EKSCI/CDObservability/MonitoringBackend engineeringSystems design
Nice to have:Deployment safety

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
  • Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
  • Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
  • 401k with a 4% match
  • Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees) and a health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
  • Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
  • Two top-floor offices in San Francisco’s Union Square and Singapore’s Raffles Place
  • Annual travel budget to visit either office
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About HUD

The platform for building RL environments

The platform for building RL environments. Train specialized agents, evaluate models, and deliver frontier‑grade post‑training data to labs.

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