Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

HUD • Singapore, CA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems.

This is not a pure infrastructure role. The right person has strong production infra experience, but also thinks like a backend engineer: they can reason about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and how product requirements translate into resilient systems. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on.

Requirements

• Owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost
• Deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management is strongly preferred
• Built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
• Strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
• Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms
• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services
• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability
• Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster without hiding too much complexity
• We prioritize technical aptitude, ownership, and learning potential over years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths
• Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly
• Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk
• Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)
• Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office (in-office employees)
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• Equinox membership
• 401k
• Commuter benefits (US employees)
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed