Athelas

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Athelas$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in software engineering, focusing on infrastructure and platform roles.
  • Experience creating internal developer platforms with a customer-centric approach.
  • Proficient in public cloud services (GCP, AWS, Azure) and their managed services.
  • Experience with hybrid environments and cloud migrations.
  • Skilled in cloud-native technologies and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
  • Knowledgeable in controller-based infrastructure management (Crossplane, Kubernetes operators).
  • Familiar with service mesh technologies and software-defined networking.

Responsibilities

  • Build and enhance the internal developer platform, ensuring user-friendly tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes for service provisioning.
  • Oversee the Kubernetes fleet, including cluster management and autoscaling.
  • Design and implement the service traffic and network layer with focus on security and routing.
  • Lead release and deployment processes using Argo CD and GitOps workflows.
  • Develop observability practices using OpenTelemetry and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Establish zero-trust access for systems, incorporating secure connectivity and credential management.

Benefits

  • Collaboration with a talented cross-functional team.
  • Opportunities for architectural decision-making and technical leadership.
  • Hands-on role with significant influence on company-wide engineering practices.
  • Support of advanced cloud infrastructure across major platforms.
  • Engagement in innovative projects related to service mesh and observability.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team to own the foundational infrastructure and internal developer platform that every other engineering team at Commure builds on. This is a horizontal team supporting multi-product infrastructure that you will design, build, and operate end-to-end:
  • Cloud infrastructure and IaC
  • Kubernetes fleet and workload orchestration
  • Internal developer platform
  • Release and deployment (GitOps)
  • Service mesh, traffic management, and networking
  • Observability: metrics, logs, and traces
  • Zero-trust access and on-prem connectivity

The stack today runs on public cloud (GCP, AWS, and Azure), with all infrastructure defined as code (Terraform and controller-based). Argo CD drives deployment; Helm handles application packaging; Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry power observability. Service mesh is an active build-out, and the shape of it is yours to define.

This is a hands-on IC role with broad scope. You'll make architectural calls, write the code that matters most, and set the patterns other teams build on.

What You'll Do

You'll own several of these verticals within the team's scope end-to-end.
  • Build out the internal developer platform: golden-path templates, self-serve tooling, local development environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Own the cloud foundation: GCP, AWS, and/or Azure infrastructure managed as code with Terraform and controller-based provisioning via Kubernetes operators and Crossplane.
  • Run the Kubernetes fleet: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, autoscaling, node management, and multi-cluster patterns. Shape how services are packaged and deployed with Helm.
  • Design the traffic and network layer: service mesh, ingress, mTLS, and traffic management (routing, rate limiting, canary, circuit-breaking, RPC).
  • Own the release and deployment story with Argo CD. GitOps workflows, progressive delivery (canary, blue-green), rollback safety, and environment promotion patterns.
  • Own the observability stack: OpenTelemetry based instrumentation, metrics (Prometheus), dashboards (Grafana), distributed tracing, logging, unified alerting, templated dashboard, etc.
  • Build out zero-trust access to internal and external systems: VPN, BeyondCorp, short-lived credentials, and on-prem connectivity.
  • Partner with Security on secrets management, policy-as-code, and secure-by-default patterns that meet HIPAA and SOC 2 by default.


What You Have
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering roles.
  • Experience building internal developer platforms with a strong product mindset (treating developers as customers).
  • Experience with public cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) and managed cloud services.
  • Experience with on-prem or hybrid environments and data center / cloud migrations.
  • Experience with cloud-native technologies.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi).
  • Experience with plus controller-based infrastructure management (Crossplane, Kubernetes operators).
  • Experience with service mesh technologies and software-defined networking (SDN).
  • Experience with modern release workflows using GitOps and progressive delivery (Argo CD, Flux, Kargo).
  • Experience with observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
  • Experience in regulated industries (healthcare, finance) with HIPAA and SOC 2 obligations.

About Athelas

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