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.
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 Staff 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: Architect, build, and improve automation to eliminate toil and operational work.
Optimize Performance and Infrastructure: Collaborate with core infrastructure and product teams to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments (Kubernetes, Docker, GCP).
Elevate Developer Experience: Design and implement improvements to our build, test, and deployment systems.
Drive Cross-Company Improvements: Partner directly with service owners across Replit.
Build Shared Tooling: Create and maintain centralized tooling and automation.
Debug and Harden Systems: Dive deep into debugging extremely difficult technical problems.
Provide Staff-Level Guidance: Review feature and system designs.
Educate and Mentor: Educate, mentor, and hold accountable the engineering team.
Build and Integrate: Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
Required Qualifications
8-10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles.
Strong programming skills in languages like Python or Go.
Deep understanding of distributed systems.
Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) and cloud-native technologies.
Proven track record of implementing and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions.
Strong incident management skills with experience leading incident response.
Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management tools.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong interpersonal skills, with experience working with engineers from junior to principal levels.
