Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

• Opening: Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes
• Location: Remote
• Type: Full-Time
• Preferred Timezone: Within 3 time zones of PST
• Experience: 10+ years

About Us

We're a fast-growing startup building scalable, high-performance systems that power worlds most innovative game studios and app makers. Our mission is to simplify backend infrastructure so developers can focus on creating amazing experiences. Our team moves fast, ships often, and values curiosity, autonomy, and craftsmanship.

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help own and evolve our production infrastructure. You’ll play a critical role in designing and operating distributed systems that support game studios around the world.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain reliable infrastructure for our backend gaming platform.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and observability.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions for AWS environments.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to optimize microservice and macroservice deployments.
• Implement and maintain Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stacks for observability, alerting, and performance insights.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, testing, and scaling workflows.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot production issues, and improve reliability through automation and tooling.
• Manage and optimize data systems — primarily PostgreSQL, Redis, and related data stores.
• Contribute to operational tooling and services written in Golang.
• Drive technical excellence in DevOps, security, and scalability across the engineering org.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, etc.).
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed system design.
• Proven experience managing PostgreSQL and Redis in production.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and metrics-driven observability.
• Proficiency with Golang for tooling, automation, or backend services.
• Excellent debugging, performance tuning, and systems thinking skills.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset suitable for a fast-moving startup.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Couchbase or other distributed NoSQL databases.
• Experience with NATS or similar event streaming/message bus technologies.
• Familiarity with infrastructure cost optimization and autoscaling patterns.
• Interest or background in gaming infrastructure, multiplayer systems, or real-time backends.

Why Join Us

• Build foundational infrastructure for a rapidly scaling gaming platform.
• Work with a small, senior engineering team that values autonomy, clarity, and technical depth.
• Shape architecture decisions that will impact millions of players.
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and flexible remote work culture.

Interested? Reach out to jobs@snapser.com with your resume — we’d love to chat!