Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Weekend•San Francisco, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
Weekend is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure as our AI gaming platform grows. You'll own our Kubernetes cluster, lead security improvements, drive infrastructure automation and best practices, administer AWS accounts, and serve as the primary infrastructure partner for our software engineering teams. This is a foundational role — you'll directly enable Weekend's game teams to move fast without compromising reliability.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles
- Proven experience administering large numbers of remote machines (Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal tools that make engineering teams more productive
- Strong security fundamentals: secrets management, threat modeling, and secure-by-default design
- Experience managing build automation (Travis, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
- A track record of operating in fast-moving environments with rapid product iteration
- High ownership mentality — you treat infrastructure problems as your problems to solve
- Deep user empathy — you build for the developers who depend on your systems
Nice To Haves
- Experience with modern NodeJS, JVM, or similar modern runtimes
- Background working on large-scale gaming or consumer platforms
- Experience with observability tooling (e.g., DataDog)
Responsibilities
- Manage and ensure the stability of Weekend's Kubernetes cluster (EKS)
- Audit and enhance our infrastructure security posture, including secrets management and secure-by-default design
- Lead the adoption of infrastructure best practices through automation and internal education
- Administer Weekend's AWS account(s), including IAM, networking, cost management, and cloud resource governance across all environments
- Empower software engineers to manage their own infrastructure through self-service tooling and robust documentation
- Pair with software engineers to solve their day-to-day infrastructure problems
- Define a proactive security strategy that bakes best practices into the developer workflow
- Develop an infrastructure strategy for our AI initiative
Benefits
- Medical insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents
- Dental insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents
- Vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents
- 401k matching
- Flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model
- Unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum)
- 16 paid holidays
- 40 hours of bereavement leave
- Unlimited sick days
- Generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents
- Generous parental leave policy includes 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents
- Visa support for eligible candidates
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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