Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Contentful as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and contribute to building and maintaining our highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure. You will design, build, and maintain infrastructure serving billions of monthly requests, working with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve infrastructure, observability, and incident response. This role requires strong AWS knowledge, experience with Terraform and Kubernetes, and proficiency in a modern programming language. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including stock options, generous paid time off, family benefits, education budget, wellbeing stipend, and more.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments
• Strong AWS knowledge across core services: VPC, ALB, EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Route53, RDS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, etc
• Terraform expertise for infrastructure provisioning
• Practical experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS), including workload tuning, autoscaling, and troubleshooting under load
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred)
• Understanding of networking concepts: routing, DNS, load balancing
• Familiarity with CDN/Edge (e.g., Fastly) and how they interact with backend systems
• Comfortable debugging distributed systems issues across Edge, Network, Compute, and Storage layers
• Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and New Relic
• Familiarity with SRE practices: SLO, SLA, etc
• Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required)
• A collaborative mindset: you're helpful, respectful, and enjoy sharing knowledge
• Ability to context switch, work through ambiguity, and contribute across multiple workstreams
• You lead by example, mentor others, and embrace a culture of safe experimentation and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available, secure, and scalable - serving billions of monthly requests
• Work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
• Deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully
• Collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements
• Work to improve observability at scale
• Help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems
• Be involved in incident response, postmortems

Benefits

• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family
• We value Work-Life balance and You Time ! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days,  education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
• Time off to care for and focus on your growing family
• Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
• An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
• A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best