Senior Infrastructure Engineer II
Kit· Engineering
Remote$197k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 5d ago
About the role
Senior Infrastructure Engineer II responsible for owning and improving Kit's core infrastructure (databases, Kubernetes, version upgrades, platform tooling, and day-to-day operations), building paved paths for safe testing and deployment, and maintaining high reliability with on-call responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Own core infrastructure areas end to end: databases, Kubernetes, version upgrades, and platform tooling.
- Take full on-call responsibility starting by the end of the first quarter.
- Ship improvements such as version upgrades or monitoring enhancements.
- Build paved paths (e.g., sandbox environments) for AI agents or non-engineers to safely build and test changes.
- Write runbooks, docs, and decision write-ups.
- Collaborate with product engineers and other teams relying on infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Around 7+ years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles
- Owning production infrastructure for a product where downtime costs customers money
- Carrying a pager for systems you owned and reducing on-call noise over time
- Leading major upgrade or migration with minimal customer impact
- Building self-service tooling or paved paths that engineers adopted
- Experience in a small infrastructure team where problem handoffs are limited
Skills
Required:Production infrastructure on AWS at scaleKubernetes in productionInfrastructure as code and CI/CDMonitoring and alertingIncident diagnosis and resolutionDocumentation and runbooks
Nice to have:Cost optimizationNice to have: Cloudflare, sandbox environments, or email infrastructure
Benefits
- Profit Sharing
- Kit equity
- 401k with a 5% match
- Medical premiums covered (up to $2,100/month) with dental and vision fully covered
- Equipment budget and company laptops
- Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year)
- Creator meetup budget ($50/month)
- Gender affirming benefits
- Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually
- 20 days paid time off per year
- Paid vacation bonus of $1,000 after five consecutive unplugged days
- 10 paid holidays
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Up to 6 weeks paid bereavement/medical/disaster leave
- Winter Break Closure (essential coverage maintained)
- 4-week paid sabbatical after five years
- Team retreats twice a year
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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