Principal Infrastructure Engineer

The role is for a Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Voxel51, focusing on designing and maintaining scalable, reliable infrastructure for AI data platform.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $250K–$280K/yr

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture and evolution of Voxel51’s infrastructure to support deployments ranging from individual researchers to Fortune 500 enterprises
• Design, build, and scale deployment systems across cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) and on-premises environments, ensuring reliability, security, and repeatability
• Partner with enterprise customers to deliver and support production-grade deployments, guiding installation, troubleshooting, and scaling
• Lead infrastructure initiatives across engineering teams, enabling faster development with robust tooling and automation
• Drive best practices in CI/CD, evolving pipelines and introducing new approaches
• Develop and maintain deployment solutions for Voxel51-hosted environments (GKE) and customer on-prem installations (K8s or Docker Compose)
• Champion developer productivity, improving workflows for development and automated cloud deployments
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues, spanning build failures, runtime failures, and customer deployment challenges
• Anticipate and prevent failures by designing monitoring, alerting, and predictive solutions
• Mentor engineers and set technical direction to keep infrastructure ahead of customer needs and industry trends

Requirements

• Deep experience with containerized environments (building, packaging, debugging container images, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Helm charts)
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)
• Scripting and automation skills (Bash or similar)
• Python expertise (build and environment management, packaging/distribution, release management, dependency debugging)
• CI/CD systems experience (GitHub Actions)
• Cloud infrastructure knowledge (GCP, IAM, VPC, load balancing, ingress/egress routing, proxies, firewall rules)
• Database fundamentals (MongoDB or similar NoSQL systems)
• Observability skills (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Security best practices (certificates, service accounts, least privilege, role assumptions)
• Troubleshooting ability in complex, distributed systems
• Testing mindset for validating functionality
• Strong communication skills for working with enterprise customers and remote teams
• Adaptability and curiosity for learning new concepts and technologies

Benefits

• Equity in the form of options
• A variety of benefits
• Opportunity to grow in an exciting and collaborative environment

Additional Information

• Originally posted on Himalayas