Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Contentful as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and contribute to the design, building, and maintenance of highly scalable and secure cloud infrastructure. You will work with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve observability and mitigate operational risks. This role requires 3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, strong AWS knowledge, and expertise in Terraform and Kubernetes. Contentful offers a comprehensive benefits package including stock options, generous paid time off, family benefits, education budget, wellbeing stipend, and more. The company fosters a collaborative and supportive work environment, valuing work-life balance and continuous improvement. This is a remote opportunity.

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
• Comfort 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
• A collaborative mindset: you're helpful, respectful, and enjoy sharing knowledge
• Ability to context switch, work through ambiguity, and contribute across multiple workstreams
• Lead by example, mentor others, and embrace a culture of safe experimentation and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family
• 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
• Personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
• 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
• Annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
• Monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
• New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees