Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The role

You will own and evolve Kubernetes infrastructure and design progressive delivery pipelines. You will work to architect, automate, and harden on-premises and cloud environments for major financial institutions.

What you will do

• Own and evolve Kubernetes infrastructure, including cluster management, service mesh configuration, and container security policies.
• Design and implement progressive delivery pipelines with canary deployments, automated rollbacks, and deployment health validation.
• Build and maintain observability infrastructure in Datadog.
• Drive incident response for high-severity outages and model capacity needs.
• Architect and automate secure infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure controls for SOC 2 compliance.
• Lead customer engagements for enterprise rollouts and mentor mid-level engineers.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in infrastructure engineering or DevOps at high-growth or hyperscale companies.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including production cluster management, Helm, and service mesh technologies.
• A proven track record of architecting and operating AWS, GCP, or Azure at an enterprise scale.
• Experience with observability platforms.
• A strong background in Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize) and safe deployment practices.
• Battle scars from leading outages, capacity events, and large-scale incident reviews.
• Strong programming skills in Python.

Nice to have

• AWS (preferred)
• Datadog (preferred)
• Familiarity with TypeScript.
• Direct involvement in SOC 2 or other compliance audit preparation or remediation.
• Direct experience with private-cloud or on-premises deployments for regulated customers.
• Previous experience at startups scaling infrastructure from the early stages to the enterprise level.
• A background in fintech or building systems for highly regulated industries.
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and model deployment at scale.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare
• 401k matching
• commuter benefits
• 15 days PTO + holidays
• unlimited sick days
• Flexible leave options
• DoorDash and an Uber home if working late

Before you apply

• We sponsor H-1B transfers
• we're unable to sponsor new H-1B petitions or green cards

About the company

Bretton runs AI-native operations for the financial back office. They are based in downtown San Francisco.