About the Role
We are seeking a talented individual to join our team as an Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will play a crucial role in building out our internal tooling and pipelines, with the goal of improving developer experience and enabling faster product iteration. You will be hands-on with Kubernetes, deploying, managing and scaling both cloud and on-prem clusters. A core focus of this role is maintaining and evolving our existing observability stack to ensure system reliability and performance visibility as we scale. You will leverage automation and orchestration to optimize delivery practices and costs. If you are passionate about building robust internal systems, improving developer experience, and ensuring the smooth operation of our infrastructure, we would love to hear from you.
What You Will Do
* Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premise environments, ensuring high availability and scalability.
* Build and maintain our observability platform using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager to provide comprehensive metrics collection, visualization, and alerting.
* Define and track SLIs/SLOs, create actionable dashboards, and implement alerting strategies to proactively detect issues such as sensor failures or data gaps.
* Embrace automation and leverage infrastructure management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, CDK) to improve deployment pipelines and eliminate recurring issues.
* Develop and maintain internal tooling to enhance the efficiency and productivity of our development processes. Design and implement CI/CD pipelines that streamline our workflows.
* Conduct regular maintenance and troubleshooting activities, ensuring the reliability of our systems and equipment.
Who You Are
* Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production environments, including deployment strategies, networking, storage, and troubleshooting.
* Experience with Kubernetes operators, Helm charts, and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux).
* Hands-on expertise with the Prometheus and Grafana monitoring stack, including PromQL, custom exporters, and dashboard creation.
* Experience with logging and tracing tools (e.g., Loki, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger).
* Proficient in CI/CD automation, software development lifecycle, and cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub Actions).
* Experience administering role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC).
* Comfortable integrating with and managing IAM systems and tools such as Keycloak, Okta, and others.
* Proficient in scripting and programming languages to implement deployment automation and testing (e.g., Python, Go).
Bonus Points
* Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
* Familiarity with managed Kubernetes cloud platforms such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or Rancher.
* Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow. Knowledge of security frameworks, compliance, and regulatory standards (e.g., SOC2, GDPR, FedRAMP).
* You enjoy solving problems and are naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use.
* Comfortable taking risks and owning the accountability for managing them. You have a bias for action.
* Startup experience and an understanding of zero to one ideas. You enjoy attacking complex and novel problems.
* You hold strong opinions on the best Italian cuisine in the Seattle area. You are able to clearly and reasonably explain pros/cons of various top destinations.
Benefits
We provide top-of-the-line medical/dental/vision for employees and dependents, and have additional benefits designed to optimize every team member's vitality, health, and wellness. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across various geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $100,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $180,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Galvanick is an early stage startup and base salary is only one component of our compensation package. Depending on the position offered, equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Location
The Galvanick team is based in Seattle. Given that we are an early-stage startup working on an exceptionally hard problem, we expect new team members to be in office. We are happy to cover relocation expenses.
