Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own the entire cloud stack, building and operating systems that handle billions of requests at SearchApi. This role involves improving observability, scaling infrastructure, and solving hard technical problems in a remote-first, lean engineering team.
What You'll Do
- Own and improve observability across the entire stack: metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards
- Architect and operate browser cloud infrastructure: containerized browsers, session isolation, crash recovery, autoscaling
- Handle websocket connections, CDP tunnels, and TCP-level tuning for browser automation
- Write and maintain Terraform for all infrastructure. Everything is code
- Tune autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization
- Expand to new regions as we grow
- Experiment with Lambdas, new cloud providers for custom scraping needs
- Debug production issues: memory leaks, zombie processes, network failures
- Build disaster recovery and incident response runbooks
- Work with Linux systems, Dockerfiles, container orchestration daily
- Mentor other engineers on infrastructure best practices
What We're Looking For
- Grinder mentality: takes initiative without waiting for instructions
- Results-driven: ships, measures, and iterates
- Great writer: capable of producing clear documentation, runbooks, post-mortems, PRs
- Strong work ethic: thrives in startup pace
- Deep production experience with AWS: ECS, EKS, Fargate, RDS, VPC, IAM
- Fluent in Terraform. Everything is infrastructure as code
- Comfortable with Linux systems, Docker, container orchestration
- Experience running headless browsers or similar workloads at scale (Playwright, Puppeteer, raw CDP)
- Understand networking: TCP, websockets, load balancing, multi-region
- Built observability stacks that engineers actually use (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Can debug memory leaks, zombie processes, and weird container behavior at 2am
- Fluent in English, written and spoken
- BSc or higher in CS or equivalent technical field
Nice to Have
- Experience with browser clouds or similar high-concurrency containerized workloads
- Multi-region and multi-cloud experience
- Cost optimization at scale
- Connection pooling experience (PgBouncer or similar)
- Understanding of database sharding concepts
- Experience with Lambdas or serverless for specific workloads
- TLS fingerprinting, CDP internals, or browser automation depth
Technical Stack
- AWS: Fargate, ECS, EKS, RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, VPC
- Terraform
- Docker
- Ruby on Rails 8.1
- Ruby 3.4
- Cursor
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Intercom
- GitHub
- Slack
- CI/CD
Team & Environment
- lean, small team
- engineers shipping real products directly to customers
- Real Impact: Small team, massive scale. Your infrastructure runs in production serving billions of requests
- Hard Problems: Browser clouds, websocket connections, TCP tuning, multi-region deployments, autoscaling at scale
- Full Ownership: You'll own the stack
- Fortune 500 Customers: Our API powers production workloads, not just pilots and experiments
- Bootstrapped and Profitable: We answer to customers, not investors
- Grinders who take ownership and move fast
- You shape the direction, make decisions, and ship
- Not a ticket-driven ops role
- Fast pace. We ship daily. We expect results, not activity
- Written communication is everything
- Remote-first
Benefits & Compensation
- Fully Remote. Work from anywhere
- Equity share. Own a piece of what you're building
- Profit sharing. When we win, you win
- Learn fast. Touch every part of a growing SaaS. Ship real products to real customers
- Annual team retreats (last one in Spain)
All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
