Job Details

The Role

As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will help lead and build out the automation for provisioning and managing the Nextdata OS in multiple clouds. Given that we are in the early, your work will shape the future of how data mesh will get adopted by the industry.

You will apply your knowledge of having deployed large scale distributed systems and data and ML/analytics infrastructure to join the founding engineering team to deliver a self‑service and secure OS platform for the data product developers of the future.

You will contribute to the overall Nextdata OS design and own the design and implementation of the deployment of the OS in PaaS, SaaS and customer cloud environments. You will write scalable and modular infrastructure‑as‑code and review others' code to ensure the overall code quality. You will own the quality of the code you have written, even (especially!) when it is running in production.

You will work with customers to understand their requirements, collaborate with the product team, and co‑create the Nextdata OS with the rest of the engineering team.

You Are The Right Fit If You Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Engineer.
• Experience working for a start‑up and leading an infrastructure team.
• Experience with designing, developing, and maintaining robust CI/CD automation for Kubernetes native applications in multiple clouds and on customer cloud environments.
• Successfully dealt with the complexities of PaaS and SaaS deployment models for a large number of customers.
• Experience with provisioning and managing data and ML/analytics ecosystem on multiple clouds, such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure/GCP data warehouses and ML platforms.
• Successfully worked on minimizing infrastructure costs for deployments.
• Led or contributed significantly to infrastructure security audits.
• Experience troubleshooting system issues, providing timely resolution to minimize downtime.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies, specifically Docker.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes, with experience in managing and operating Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments.
• Proficiency in working with AWS EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS.
• Strong experience in network architecture, particularly in cloud environments (AWS VPC, Azure VNet, GCP VPC).
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and ELK stack.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic, team‑oriented environment.
• Experience with service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
• Familiarity with cloud security practices and tools.

Our Benefits

We are an early stage company, but we don't subsist on ramen! We are an experienced team with families. We provide $2000 for your home workspace setup, premium health, vision, dental insurance coverage for you and your family. And of course, early stage equity and market rate salary.