Obvious
The operating system for everything
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure EngineerInfrastructure EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
50 days ago
Salary
$220K - $280K / year
Bachelor Degree10 yrs expEnglishAWSKubernetesPostgresTerraform
Job Description
• Make deployments boring (in the best way possible)
• Own CI/CD pipelines: optimize build times, improve caching, reduce flakiness
• Evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) deployment strategy for reliability and speed
• Manage container builds and lambdas
• Extend our telemetry with better instrumentation, smarter sampling, and actionable dashboards
• Build alerting that catches actual problems and ignores noise
• Make the feedback loop from code to production as fast as possible
• Improve preview environments, local dev tooling, and testing infrastructure
• Eliminate toil and repetitive work through thoughtful automation
• Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on infrastructure at scale
- A proven record of exceptional achievements and impact
- Willingness to work hard, move fast and grow quickly in a rapidly changing environment
- An exceptional ability to learn
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production (we run EKS)
- Strong Terraform skills—you've managed real infrastructure as code
- Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dash0, Braintrust, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging
- PostgreSQL performance tuning, connection pooling, read replicas
- AWS services: Lambda (event-driven processing, background jobs, API backends), S3, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch
- You've been on-call and you've built systems that made on-call better
- You think like a product manager for internal tools, where the product is developer productivity
- Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation—optimized for you and your future.
- Meaningful equity—you’ll own a real piece of something that could be huge.
- Founding team influence—your voice will shape direction.
- Creative freedom—evolve and steer both current and future product identity.
- Platform to shine—use Obvious’s reach to amplify your personal brand and design voice.
- Room to grow—as we scale, opportunities are limitless.
- In-person hackathons—we’re semi‑distributed and regularly meet in person to lock in and build together.
- Excellent benefits—fully covered health, vision, and dental, 401k match, parental leave, home office stipend, and more.
- Work comfortably—choose between a $10,000 home office makeover stipend or paid co-working spaces.
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