Software engineer, cloud infrastructure
About The Position
Watershed’s Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems that power the company’s product and help engineers ship safely and efficiently. The team owns core compute, databases, networking, deployments, and observability, focusing on production reliability, predictable infrastructure costs, security, and a low-toil developer experience. The work combines operational excellence with platform improvements. Current investment areas include upgrading networking architecture, improving test environments and deployment systems, evolving observability tools, hardening AI infrastructure as the AI product suite grows, and supporting agentic engineering workflows. The position collaborates with product engineers, Security and Compliance, and Finance, and participates in a 24/7 on-call rotation. Employees with access to an office are expected to work there four days per week; roles designated as remote are exempt from this expectation.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of software and/or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Hands-on experience in some of the following areas: Kubernetes, Terraform or infrastructure as code, CI/CD, networking, relational databases, observability, reliability, or cloud security.
- Experience with a major cloud provider.
- Willingness to work from an office four days per week, except for roles designated as remote.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with GCP; it is helpful but not required.
- Interest in building appropriately scaled tooling for the company’s stage and growth, including supporting AI infrastructure and agentic products.
- Enjoyment of building enabling systems that help other engineers deliver excellent customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure across compute, databases, networking, deployment systems, and observability.
- Contribute to technical planning, design reviews, team processes, and a culture of thoughtful, high-impact development.
- Collaborate with product engineers to understand their needs and provide infrastructure primitives that help them work safely and efficiently.
- Strengthen cloud security in partnership with Security and Compliance functions.
- Drive infrastructure cost efficiency in collaboration with the Finance team.
- Participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation and turn operational lessons into lasting improvements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
