Software Engineer-Infrastructure

Job Overview

Join Opaque as a Software Engineer - Infrastructure, where you'll harness your expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and modern DevOps practices to build, optimize, and secure our Confidential AI platform. You'll design reliable, high-availability systems using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions while enabling seamless CI/CD workflows. From improving system performance and incident management to ensuring compliance (SOC, HIPAA) and deploying proactive cybersecurity measures, you'll play a critical role in balancing innovation, reliability, and customer trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated build, test, and other cloud environments using infrastructure-as-code
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
• Manage and troubleshoot incidents and analyze root causes
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures for continuous vulnerability assessment and risk management.
• Support SOC, HIPPA, and other compliance, and assist with customer infosec questionnaires.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering or site reliability engineering role
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills across languages
• Experience operating 24x7 high-availability, distributed software applications and performance tuning software applications and optimizing fleet utilization
• Experience building infrastructure and tooling from the ground up.
• Experience scripting operating system tasks in Bash, Python, etc
• Knowledge about hosting multi-tenant solutions with hybrid deployment models
• Strong knowledge of modern web standards and protocols (HTTP, TLS, OAuth2, CORS), network fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, load shedding), and experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar)
• Hands-on production experience working with:
• • Kubernetes, terraform, Github Actions
  • At least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • Managing critical production workloads