Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide and over 500,000 business users, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.
About the Role
Join our Infrastructure Engineering team and help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Replit's infrastructure that serves millions of developers worldwide. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, implementing automation and establishing best practices that enable our platform to scale efficiently while maintaining high availability.
Key Responsibilities
Drive Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Build and improve automation to eliminate toil and operational work.
Maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
Create self-healing systems that can automatically respond to common failure scenarios.
Optimize Performance and Infrastructure: Collaborate with core infrastructure and product teams to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments (Kubernetes, Docker, GCP).
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and implement capacity planning strategies.
Elevate Developer Experience: Design and implement improvements to our build, test, and deployment systems.
Drive Cross-Team Improvements: Partner with service owners across Replit to understand their pain points.
Build Shared Tooling: Create and maintain centralized tooling and automation that improves the engineering lifecycle.
Debug and Harden Systems: Dive deep into debugging difficult technical problems.
Collaborate on Design Reviews: Participate in feature and system design reviews.
Build and Integrate: Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Required Qualifications
4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles.
Strong programming skills in languages like Python or Go.
Solid understanding of distributed systems.
Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) and cloud-native technologies.
Experience implementing and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions.
Strong incident management skills with experience participating in incident response.
Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.
Bonus Points
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and tools.
Knowledge of modern observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).
Experience building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency.
Experience with Go and Terraform.
Familiarity with working in rapid-growth environments.
