Software Engineer - Infrastructure
About The Position
MotherDuck is on a mission to make data warehousing fun, frictionless, and awesome for developers and data practitioners building analytics experiences. They are building a cloud-hosted version of DuckDB, unifying local development with cloud operations. The engineering team is passionate, collaborative, and customer-focused, with hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam. The infrastructure team specifically builds and maintains the systems and tools that ensure the platform is reliable, secure, and easy to operate, running on Kubernetes. This role involves a blend of cloud systems work, software development, and operational strategy.
Requirements
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience; operated clusters in production, not just deployed workloads onto them
- Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure more broadly (AWS, Terraform, service meshes, etc.)
- Programming skills in Go and/or Python, and the ability to design systems that are secure, scalable, and maintainable
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- A real sense of ownership and a pragmatic approach to engineering tradeoffs
- Interest in building internal tools and automation to make development and operations easier for others
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve our Kubernetes platform, including cluster architecture, upgrades, multi-tenancy, and workload isolation
- Build and maintain infrastructure components using Go and Python across compute, networking, and storage
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines that enable safe and fast software delivery
- Implement observability tooling and dashboards that surface system health and improve oncall effectiveness
- Automate operational workflows, especially around K8s operations, to reduce manual intervention and increase consistency
- Collaborate with product and backend teams to embed operational best practices into product development
- Participate in incident response and ongoing efforts to improve system reliability and security
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision for employees, plus 80% coverage for dependents
- Flexible PTO
- 401k plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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