Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Summary

Join Flip.shop, a rapidly growing social commerce company, as a Technical Lead - Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer. You will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our serving infrastructure to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads for our recommendation and ads systems. This role requires strong expertise in building and scaling distributed systems and collaboration with engineering and machine learning teams. You will ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of our systems. The position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure and contribute to the future of social commerce. We offer 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