Software Engineer, Infrastructure

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Profound, you'll build and scale the systems that power our rapid growth. You'll ensure our infrastructure is highly available, cost-effective, and able to handle explosive traffic and compute demands. You'll work closely with engineers across product, research, and operations to design scalable architectures, streamline deployments, and improve observability.

• Designing and maintaining core infrastructure across cloud environments

• Building Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to automate deployments and scaling

• Improving monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability

• Managing CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments

• Supporting disaster recovery planning and ensuring high availability of systems

• Partnering with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands

• Identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking

• Implementing security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)

• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform)

• Deep experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Solid understanding of distributed architectures

• Programming proficiency in Python and Rust (or willingness to learn Rust quickly)

• Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments

• Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems

• Database scaling and optimization experience

• Observability and monitoring expertise

• Network architecture and performance tuning

• Security and compliance experience