Kindred
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Remote - US or Canada. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will serve as the infrastructure lead and own decisions regarding cloud architecture, platform strategy, and deployment pipelines. You will design and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure and develop internal tools to improve developer productivity.
What you will do
- Serve as infrastructure lead and own key decisions including cloud architecture, platform strategy, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code implementation.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure.
- Develop internal tools, automation, and backend services.
- Work directly with engineering and data teams to ensure infrastructure supports current needs and future growth.
- Help establish infrastructure best practices and mentor engineers on cloud architecture, observability, and operational excellence.
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of technical experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, etc.).
- Strong coding skills (Python, Javascript/Typescript, or similar).
- Experience building internal tools, automation scripts, and infrastructure services.
- Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Experience with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and incident response practices.
- Demonstrated success leading infrastructure initiatives and making critical architectural decisions at previous roles.
- Prior experience at a high-growth stage company.
- Ability to exercise strong judgment and make difficult tradeoff decisions balancing cost, performance, security, and velocity.
- Excellent listener and strong communicator.
- Comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Pragmatic approach to engineering.
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation and equity
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Flexible time off
- 12 paid holidays per year
- 21 credits per year to stay in Kindred homes
- $4,000 annual travel stipend
- Remote-first and remote-flexible work environment
- Opportunities to work from anywhere
- Regular team and company offsites
About the company
Kindred is a members-only home swapping platform that unlocks the ability to live a travel-rich lifestyle through the power of community. The company has grown to a global community of 300,000 members across 150+ cities.