Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join CookUnity as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer and play a crucial role in designing and architecting scalable and reliable platforms. You will collaborate with engineering, data, and product teams to drive impactful changes, ensuring seamless operation of cloud infrastructure, observability tools, and continuous deployment pipelines. This highly cross-functional role requires technical leadership on high-impact projects and coaching engineers on best practices. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, implement Infrastructure as Code, and manage CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities also include database management, event streaming platform management, and implementing robust security measures. CookUnity offers a competitive compensation and benefits package.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS and advanced multi-region cloud networking concepts
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) knowledge and experience with Terraform
• Extensive experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
• Experience with Kubernetes and EKS to manage containerized applications at scale
• Experience with database management and decentralized database migrations
• Proficiency in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines to achieve efficient software delivery

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and effectively influence and coach Engineers on best practices to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and EKS environments, ensuring efficient scaling and high availability of our applications
• Create and maintain a robust framework for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated infrastructure deployment and management
• Implement and manage efficient and reliable CI/CD pipelines with GitLab for seamless software delivery
• Manage our growing database fleet (including RDS Postgres and MySQL), ensuring seamless database migrations, data integrity, and reliability. Partner with engineering teams to foster best data management practices
• Design, implement, and manage event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) to enable real-time data processing and asynchronous communication between services
• Implement and maintain robust security measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems
• Develop and maintain an holistic approach to observability and infrastructure monitoring to proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact our services

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python, NodeJs, Golang and/or Bash
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in production
• Experience with GitOps principles and tools, such as ArgoCD
• Experience with event streaming platforms, such as Kafka, in particular use of MSK in AWS environments
• Knowledge of infrastructure security best practices and experience in implementing security measures

Benefits

• Get paid in USD, Crypto, Euro, ARS. Whatever your choice! We use Deel to make things easier for you!
• Work remotely: design the life that you want
• Enjoy 15 business days of vacation each year from the start date
• 16 fully paid Argentinean holidays
• Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider
• 5-year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
• Family leave of 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid
• Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
• Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform
• Personalized English coach