Senior Infrastructure Lead

Summary

Join Flip.shop, a rapidly growing social commerce company, as a Senior Infrastructure Lead. You will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and optimizing our recommendation and ads serving infrastructure. This leadership position requires expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for high-traffic environments. You will collaborate with engineering and machine learning teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability. The role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the future of social commerce. Flip.shop provides a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or backend systems development
• Strong expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for high traffic environments
• Proficiency in cloud platforms and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with large-scale data systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink) and storage solutions
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana), and system monitoring
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and scaling of infrastructure to support large-scale recommendation and ads serving systems
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of serving and infra systems
• Implement best practices for distributed systems, including load balancing, caching, and failover mechanisms
• Collaborate with ML engineers and backend developers to optimize model deployment and serving pipelines
• Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks to improve system throughput and latency
• Drive infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident response processes
• Guide architectural decisions and technology choices to align with growth and scalability goals

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced with using node.js for backend development
• Experienced with infrastructure & tools of AWS
• Experienced with message Queue such as RabbitMQ

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonuses
• Long term incentives
• A PTO policy
• Other progressive benefits