Senior - Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Paperless Post is seeking a Senior or Staff level Infrastructure Engineer to join their Infrastructure team and contribute to the technical foundation of the company. The role involves building tools to manage infrastructure, solving operational problems, and enhancing their Kubernetes-based platform to improve customer experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Build and work with Kubernetes clusters - and all the related tooling!
• Create and maintain internal tools and services, with developers as end users
• Build infrastructure as code - we are big fans of Terraform and use it extensively
• Troubleshoot production and systems issues across the breadth of our tech stack
• Architect and build major components of our platform; projects such as, re-imagining our logging pipeline, building out smart auto-scaling capabilities for our apps to utilize, etc
• Maintain a variety of existing systems across our AWS infrastructure
• Contribute your expertise in collaborating with developers to drive important workflow improvements for our org
• Become our team’s subject matter expert within the various domains that your projects touch
• Participate in on-call rotation and have a strong desire to make on-call better for everyone

Requirements:

• 6-13+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering
• Ability to build and work with Kubernetes clusters and related tooling
• Experience creating and maintaining internal tools and services
• Experience building infrastructure as code, particularly with Terraform
• Ability to troubleshoot production and systems issues across the tech stack
• Experience architecting and building major components of a platform
• Ability to maintain existing systems across AWS infrastructure
• Expertise in collaborating with developers to drive workflow improvements
• Willingness to learn and explore a wide variety of systems
• Proven ability to architect solutions based on minimal constraints
• Ability to execute effectively as the primary individual contributor on a project
• Collaboration skills with Infra team members or developers
• Experience orchestrating infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tooling
• Experience with modern container-based cloud application environments
• Understanding that applications are not 'production-ready' unless instrumented and monitored
• AWS experience, especially around IAM and EC2
• Postgres/RDS specific database administration knowledge
• Strong system fundamentals - Linux/sysadmin chops, networking knowledge
• Experience with modern observability best practices
• Experience using AI tooling to modernize and adapt workflow