Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job Overview

Join Checkly as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem! Checkly is the leading synthetic monitoring platform helping Engineers at Linkedin, Citibank, Render, Vercel and over 1000 other companies to build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability.

Our tech stack includes Claude Code, Vue.js, TypeScript, Golang, Postgres and ClickHouse. We host a hybrid cloud on AWS and bare metal infrastructure. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team of highly skilled Staff and Senior Engineers
• Evolve and optimize our hybrid AWS and bare metal infrastructure to securely run sandboxed code and AI Agents with industry leading cost efficiency
• Investigate customer and infrastructure problems down to the packet capture and process memory level together with the team to ensure customers can trust Checkly
• Contribute to infrastructure reliability and ensure systems stay snappy for ad hoc and scheduled workloads without breaking or exploding costs
• Collaborate with product engineers to improve developer experience, support our strong shipping culture and provide observability they need

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining bare metal and cloud infrastructure for production services
• Deep Linux administration experience
• Experience managing automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible or similar tools
• Basic or ideally advanced Kubernetes knowledge
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment
• FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones.

About Checkly

Checkly is a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.

Benefits

• Transparent salary
• Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first culture
• Stock options
• 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays
• Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 learning, visiting and wellbeing budget
• Coworking budget or home office setup
• Bi-annual company retreats