Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior infrastructure engineer building scalable AWS platforms for Kindred’s members-only home-swapping service. Leading DevOps, automation, architecture, and developer productivity initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as infrastructure lead and own key decisions involving cloud architecture, platform strategy, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code implementation
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure supporting the growing platform
  • Develop internal tools, automation, and backend services to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency
  • Work directly with engineering and data teams to support current needs and future growth
  • Establish infrastructure best practices
  • Mentor engineers across the organization on cloud architecture, observability, and operational excellence

Requirements

  • 5+ years of technical experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles
  • Deep hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, VPC, and IAM
  • Strong coding skills in Python, Javascript/Typescript, or similar
  • Experience building internal tools, automation scripts, and infrastructure services
  • Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
  • Experience with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and incident response practices
  • Demonstrated success leading infrastructure initiatives and making critical architectural decisions
  • Prior experience at a high-growth stage company
  • Strong judgment and ability to balance cost, performance, security, and velocity
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Comfort with uncertainty and ambiguity
  • Pragmatic approach to engineering and tool selection

Benefits

  • Competitive cash compensation and equity
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible time off
  • 12 paid holidays per year
  • 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
  • $4,000 annual travel stipend to help offset travel-related costs
  • Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment, with opportunities to work from anywhere and gather in person, including at Kindred HQ in San Francisco
  • Regular team and company offsites
  • Inclusive and highly skilled team
  • Culture of high standards, feedback, and continual growth

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$170,000 - $210,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudDockerEC2JavaScriptKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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