Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

The role

This person will own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of core infrastructure and backend systems. They will work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services.

What you will do

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management
• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale
• Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows
• Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows
• Write clean, maintainable code to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling

Required qualifications

• Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform
• Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems
• Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems
• Have strong backend engineering judgment regarding service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes
• Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment

Nice to have

• Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms
• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services
• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability
• Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
• Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• 401k with a 4% match
• Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees)
• Health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Annual travel budget to visit either office

Before you apply

• Provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore
• Process includes 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial

About the company

HUD's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. Their marketplace and platform are used by startups, Fortune 500 companies and frontier labs.