Software Engineer - Infrastructure
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$129,000–$152,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
An infrastructure engineering role centered on managing Kubernetes (EKS) clusters and Terraform-based cloud infrastructure at scale. Day-to-day work involves building and maintaining an internal developer platform, authoring infrastructure-as-code, supporting autoscaling and multi-tenant workloads, and participating in on-call rotations. Best suited to engineers with production-level Kubernetes and Terraform experience and a background in platform or SRE work.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,300–20,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting explicitly frames this as a software engineering role ('not a traditional DevOps role') that writes and ships internal tooling and platforms — primary day-to-day work is building software, supporting 15-1252. However, the heavy Kubernetes cluster operations and infrastructure management duties create a genuine pull toward 15-1244; Medium confidence reflects this tension.
No work location is specified beyond the compensation note referencing 'geographic location.' The role is listed as full-time with no office requirement stated, so remote=true is inferred, but the actual location policy is ambiguous.
AWS is listed as the required cloud provider ('preferred') within a hard-requirements block; alternatives reflect the 'at least one major cloud provider' framing.
Go is the preferred programming language but the JD explicitly lists TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Rust, and C++ as acceptable alternatives within the same requirement; all are captured in alternatives.
Docker appears only in the 'Our Core Technologies' stack narrative section, not in the requirements block — treated as preferred.
The degree requirement ('Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field') is stated without an 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as a hard requirement.
The 5+ years figure is tied to 'Platform / SRE / Infrastructure experience' at the role level, not to any specific technology, and is captured as the overall experience minimum.
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