Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

### Who you are
- 3–5 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud systems
- Hands-on experience managing and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure at meaningful scale
- Strong working knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
- Experience with distributed systems concepts: networking, storage, load balancing, and database operations
- Solid engineering fundamentals—you can write clean, well-tested code and contribute meaningfully to services and tooling, even if infrastructure is your primary domain
- A product mindset: you think about how infrastructure decisions impact the teams and products that depend on your work
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across teams
- Experience in fast-paced, high-growth environments is a plus. Familiarity with regulated industries (fintech, healthcare, etc.) is a bonus but not required

### What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure team within Platform Engineering. You’ll work on the foundational infrastructure that powers all of Valon’s products—compute, databases, storage, and networking—ensuring our platform is scalable, secure, and reliable as we grow
- This is a high-impact, high-ownership role. We handle over 100 million background jobs per day and expect to scale more than 10x over the next two years. As our commercial pipeline accelerates and we onboard major enterprise customers, the infrastructure challenges shift from feature delivery to scale, reliability, and supporting novel deployment architectures. You’ll be at the center of that work
- Adopt and operationalize new data stores to support our growth trajectory: Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis
- Scale our batch processing control plane for faster component creation and fulfillment
- Build production-equivalent sandbox environments for customer testing, demos, and onboarding
- Support new deployment models for enterprise customers, including infrastructure configurations that meet the security and data residency requirements of top-tier financial institutions
- Design, build, and operate core cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, databases, and networking layers
- Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and security of Valon’s production systems as we scale to support major enterprise deployments
- Evaluate, adopt, and operationalize new infrastructure technologies (e.g., Vitess, Clickhouse, Redis) to meet evolving product and scale requirements
- Collaborate with product engineering, platform, and operations teams to define infrastructure solutions that unlock product innovation and operational efficiency
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, driving improvements to system observability, alerting, and reliability practices
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical strategy for the platform, with an emphasis on pragmatic, well-reasoned trade-offs
- Mentor teammates through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing

### Benefits
- Compensation: You’ll receive a highly competitive compensation package with room to grow.
- Time Away: We offer a generous PTO program, sick time, and company holidays.
- Flexible Work: Remote, hybrid, or in-office. We’ve got it all and aim for you to work where it works. Where possible, we offer geographic flexibility.
- Health Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance are all company-sponsored to keep you healthy and strong.
- Parental Leave: Birthing and non-birthing parents receive 12 weeks of fully paid time to welcome a new child.