Principal/Staff+ Infrastructure Engineer & Head of Infrastructure

Engineering

• Design infrastructure for high-load distributed systems, from bare-metal environments to cloud-based Kubernetes.
• Own the platform’s reliability, performance, resilience, and security.
• Troubleshoot bottlenecks and production incidents across networking, Kubernetes, messaging systems, and data infrastructure.
• Build and execute infrastructure roadmaps covering migrations, high availability, monitoring, security, and CI/CD.
• Drive Kubernetes adoption across all environments, including production.
• Build and maintain fully operational failover and disaster recovery capabilities — not just theoretical designs.
• Write and review Infrastructure as Code.

Leadership

• Own the entire infrastructure area, including priorities, capacity planning, on-call processes, and collaboration with Engineering and Product/Project Management.
• Plan and implement infrastructure changes in close collaboration with development teams.
• Manage infrastructure projects end-to-end: break down initiatives, track progress, and remove blockers.
• Own technical hiring: candidate screening, technical interviews, and final hire/no-hire recommendations.
• Develop technical leads and empower them to make decisions independently without escalating every issue to the CIO.
• Manage infrastructure costs and capacity.

Technology Stack

• Linux / Virtualization: Debian/Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, QEMU/KVM, libvirt
• Networking: routing, VPN, BGP, DNS, load balancing, high availability, Cloudflare, Fastly
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
• Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ELK, Opsgenie, SigNoz
• Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Scripting / Tooling: Bash, Python, Golang
• Cloud: AWS, GCP
• Practices: GitOps, DevOps, SRE

Requirements

Engineer — Principal / Staff+ Level

• Strong hands-on experience with high-load systems, including messaging queues, proxies, databases, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.
• Strong experience with both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, without being tied to a single technology stack.
• Ability to design infrastructure for distributed systems and clearly explain and justify architectural decisions.
• Hands-on experience leading and resolving production incidents.
• Strong systems thinking: you understand the broader consequences of technical decisions and know how to simplify complex systems.

Leader — Head Level

• 5+ years of experience as a Head or Team Lead in a product company.
• Proven ownership of people management, prioritization, hiring, and delivery.
• Strong hiring skills: you can identify and attract strong engineers and confidently make hire/no-hire decisions.
• Proven ability to develop technical leads while maintaining strong technical oversight.
• Strong ownership mindset: you focus on solving problems rather than assigning blame.
• Ability to define the vision and direction for your area and drive it forward without waiting for tasks or instructions from senior management.

Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
• Flexible start to the workday
• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
• Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
• Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
• Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support