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Infrastructure Software Engineer, Apps Platform

Scale AI
Location
London, UK
Posted
18 days ago
Department
Applications Platform Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of experience building and deploying enterprise and public sector solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI and on-premises
  • Deep expertise in infrastructure design, networking engineering, VPNs, load balancers, and firewalls
  • Deep proficiency with IaC, containerisation and orchestration tools and technologies (Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker)
  • Comprehensive understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software delivery principles using GitHub Actions or CircleCI
  • Experience with GitOps-style deployments and a track record of ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments
  • Strong debugging skills and the ability to navigate performance/security tradeoffs in production systems
Nice to have
  • Experience as a founder or early engineer at an infrastructure-focused startup, owning a product end-to-end
  • Experience running secure workloads in multi-tenant or untrusted environments (e.g., FaaS, CI sandboxes, remote notebooks)
  • Open-source contributions to systems or developer-tools projects
  • History of on-call/incident response for production systems
What the job really is

As an Infrastructure Software Engineer on the Apps Platform team, you will focus on building and evolving the deployment and observability layers of the platform across various cloud providers and on-premises environments. Your responsibilities include expanding the deployment footprint, ensuring secure and reproducible deployments, enhancing observability, and collaborating with internal teams to address their needs and issues. You will also lead architecture reviews and manage projects from design to deployment in a dynamic setting.

Things to weigh
  • No salary listed
  • Role involves responding to incidents and production issues, which may require urgent attention and flexibility
  • The job requires comfort with ambiguity and context-switching, indicating a potentially fast-paced and dynamic work environment
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