Infrastructure Engineer

Inngest is solving long standing developer problems related to queueing, event-driven systems, and step functions in a novel way — which means we’re creating first-of-it’s-kind solutions.

Infrastructure engineering is a critical part of Inngest. It involves everything from K8S, terraform, and ansible playbooks (for bare metal) to developing high-throughput datastores to serve function state, with o11y and alerting as standard. This means that you'll need to know how to write code (Golang) as well as how to manage infrastructure.

This is a senior level role, so we require at least 5 years of experience. This role requires working time overlap with US PST. Ideally, you'd live in the SF Bay Area, but for strong candidates you may live anywhere in the United States.

This role is more than CI/CD pipelines. We're building bare metal clusters in many datacenters, owning the networking stack, and solving everything from millions of DNS queries a second to load balancing egress amongst switches.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with other engineers to architect core systems for Inngest, including message streams, real-time connectivity to external clients, consistent hashing caches, etc.

• Collaborate with systems engineers to help develop our execution engine, state store, etc. (in Go)

• Develop internal tooling (in Go) to manage our systems

• Provision and monitor systems on public clouds, bare metal, and, in the future, our own hardware.

• Ensure our systems are up to date and secure

Core requirements

• A deep understanding of Kubernetes

• A deep understanding of networking, down to the hardware level

• Experience with bare metal, from VMs to the network switches

Ideal candidate

• You acted as technical lead, owning the discovery, architecture design, planning, and execution of complex projects

• You understand how systems scale, how they should be monitored, and how to deliver and implement such systems

• You are able to identify business priorities and anticipate pitfalls and risks

• You are passionate about engineering and you choose pragmatism at work

• You have deep understanding of modern applications design architecture, networking, performance, scale and how to plan for it

• You've previously worked in a strong engineering environment as a systems or infrastructure engineer

Bonus points

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer

• Experience with Clickhouse, Kafka, Terraform, Ansible

• Experience with FoundationDB

• Experience operating blobstores, eg. Ceph, or SeaweedFS

• Experience with Anycast/BGP

What your first 90 days will look like

• First week: you’ll learn how we work as a team and our approach to growth. You’ll also start to learn our system architecture, how we provision and access our infrastructure, and how we monitor our systems

• By day 30, you’ll be proficient with our weekly cadence of work and have contributed a new feature to our architecture. You’ll fully understand our company, product, and growth strategy and start to build up context for your product mindset.

• By day 90: you’ll have shipped significant changes to our product and systems for which you created the spec. You’ll have actively participated in the discussions about the future of our infrastructure architecture at Inngest. You’ll have contributed ideas around product and growth. We’re all aligned and mutually excited about how we work together now and in the future!

What we build with

• Backend: Go

• Infrastructure: Kafka, Clickhouse, Postgres, Redis, and FoundationDB

• Automation: Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible

• Github, Linear, Slack, Notion, Figma

• Hosting: Bare metal, and Cloud providers as backups