Full-Time Staff Infrastructure Engineer

We’re looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help lead the design, reliability, and scalability of our cloud systems and internal platforms. This is a hands-on, high-leverage role where you’ll go beyond infrastructure automation to also build production-grade software and services — primarily in Go — that power ZeroTier’s global control plane.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using tools like GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Develop and operate distributed platform services and backend components in Go
• Build automation and internal tools to support deployment, scaling, and monitoring
• Operate and optimize stateful infrastructure like Redis, GCP Pub/Sub, and PostgreSQL
• Improve observability across our systems - metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Lead or support high-severity incident response, postmortems, and system hardening efforts
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation and contribute to a culture of operational excellence
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to design reliable, observable systems from the start
• Mentor peers and early-career engineers on infrastructure, architecture, and Go development best practices

What We’re Looking For

• Senior-to-staff-level experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or SRE
• Production experience with Go: not just scripting or tooling, but software development
• Deep experience with GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience working with event-driven architectures (e.g., GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar)
• Strong understanding of observability, automation, and reliability engineering principles
• Ability to design and build internal platforms or backend systems that support developer velocity
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, secret management, and production deployment strategies
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-functional leadership skills
• A track record of owning large-scale projects or systems end-to-end

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