Infrastructure Engineer, Database

Responsibilities

• Own SmithDB deployment and operations across cloud environments, including cluster lifecycle management, blue/green and rolling upgrades, and automated failover.
• Build and maintain infrastructure tooling with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent to provision, configure, and scale SmithDB nodes.
• Own the Kubernetes infrastructure supporting multi-tenant, high-throughput, low-latency distributed database services.
• Build deployment pipelines, rollout strategies, and infrastructure-as-code for the storage layer.
• Drive reliability engineering through incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and disaster recovery.
• Manage capacity planning and cost efficiency, including growth modeling, resource rightsizing, and automated handling of customer traffic spikes.
• Build safe, tested, and fast CI/CD promotion pipelines for database infrastructure changes.
• Partner with SmithDB internals engineers on production-ready infrastructure changes and low-risk rollouts.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE with hands-on experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Scripting or systems programming ability in Go, Python, or a similar language.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling such as Terraform, Helm, or ArgoCD.
• Deep familiarity with at least one major cloud provider and the primitives used to run stateful workloads reliably.
• Fluency with infrastructure-as-code, with Terraform or an equivalent such as Pulumi or CDK as a primary tool.
• Experience operating high-traffic data systems, participating in on-call response, triaging incidents, and writing runbooks.
• Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration and deploying stateful workloads in production.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain infrastructure health to product and business stakeholders.
• Experience owning production database systems such as Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, or similar is preferred.
• Comfort reading and reasoning about Rust is preferred.
• Understanding of replication, backups, point-in-time recovery, connection pooling, and graceful degradation under load is preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible vacation.
• 401(k) plan.
• Meals on in-office days in the US.
• Compensation includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, equity, benefits, and perks.
• Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.