Senior Infrastructure Engineer II

The role

You will take ownership of core infrastructure including databases, Kubernetes, version upgrades, and platform tooling. You will build paved paths for engineers, non-engineers, and AI agents to test and ship changes safely.

What you will do

• Take ownership of databases, Kubernetes, version upgrades, and platform tooling
• Build paved paths for engineers, non-engineers, and AI agents to test and ship changes
• Provide day-to-day infrastructure support
• Maintain uptime at 99.9% or better
• Reduce page volume and cloud costs
• Participate in a three-person on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Around 7 or more years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Running production infrastructure on AWS at scale, including managed relational databases, networking, and load balancing
• Operating Kubernetes in production: upgrades, capacity planning, and troubleshooting
• Managing infrastructure as code and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Building monitoring and alerting
• Diagnosing complex, multi-service incidents
• Cutting cloud costs through right-sizing and reserved capacity
• Writing clear runbooks, docs, and decision write-ups
• Owning production infrastructure for a product where downtime costs customers money
• Carrying a pager for systems you owned
• Leading a major upgrade or migration
• Building self-service tooling or paved paths

Nice to have

• experience with Cloudflare
• ephemeral or sandbox environments
• email sending infrastructure

Benefits

• Profit Sharing
• Kit equity
• 401k with a 5% match
• Medical premiums up to $2,280 per month
• Dental and vision premiums fully covered
• Health Insurance plans through Aetna
• $2,000 equipment allowance for first two years, $1,000 every following two years
• Company-provided laptops
• Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year)
• Creator meetup budget ($50/month)
• Gender affirming benefits
• Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON

Before you apply

• Phone screen with recruiter
• Hiring manager interview
• Take-home assignment
• Technical interview

About the company

Kit is an email marketing platform for creators to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products. The company is 100% independent and 100% remote.