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.<h2>About the Role:</h2>Join our Infrastructure Engineering team and help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Replits 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.We are seeking Staff Infrastructure Engineers who are passionate about building and maintaining resilient systems at scale. Your mission will be to proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our stack, then design and implement software and systems to create step-function improvements. You will design robust monitoring solutions, automate operational tasks, and continuously improve our infrastructures reliability, all while mentoring and educating the broader engineering team to make reliability a core value at Replit.<h2>You Will:</h2><ul><li>Drive Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Architect, build, and improve automation to eliminate toil and operational work. Design and 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.</li><li>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, implement capacity planning strategies, and reduce latency across global regions.</li><li>Elevate Developer Experience: Design and implement improvements to our build, test, and deployment systems to make software delivery faster, safer, and more reliable for all engineers.</li><li>Drive Cross-Company Improvements: Partner directly with service owners across Replit to understand their pain points, and collaborate on implementing build/test/deploy enhancements within their specific services.</li><li>Build Shared Tooling: Create and maintain centralized tooling and automation that improves the entire engineering lifecycle, from local development to production monitoring.</li><li>Debug and Harden Systems: Dive deep into debugging extremely difficult technical problems, making our systems and products more robust, operable, and easier to diagnose.</li><li>Provide Staff-Level Guidance: Review feature and system designs, acting as an owner for the security, scale, and operational integrity of those designs.</li><li>Educate and Mentor: Educate, mentor, and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of our systems, making reliability a core value of the Replit engineering culture.</li><li>Build and Integrate: Write high-quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers, including building pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors.</li></ul><h2>Required Skills and Experience:</h2><ul><li>8-10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles (DevOps, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering).</li><li>Strong programming skills in languages like Python or Go.</li><li>You write high-quality, well-tested code.</li><li>Deep understanding of distributed systems. You’ve designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services and know how to compose a service-oriented architecture.</li><li>Experience with container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes) and cloud-native technologies.</li><li>Proven track record of implementing and maintaining monitoring/observability solutions, with strong skills in debugging and performance tuning.</li><li>Strong incident management skills with experience leading incident response and demonstrated critical thinking under pressure.</li><li>Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management tools.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.</li><li>Strong interpersonal skills, with experience working with engineers from junior to principal levels.</li><li>A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack.</li><li>Youre passionate about making software creation accessible and empowering the next generation of builders.</li></ul><h2>Bonus Points:</h2><ul><li>Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and tools.</li><li>Knowledge of modern observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.).</li><li>Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency.</li><li>Experience with Go and Terraform.</li><li>Familiarity with working in rapid-growth environments.</li><li>Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.</li></ul>Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:💰 Competitive Salary &amp; Equity💹 401(k) Program⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave🚗 Commuter Benefits📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend🧑‍💻 Autonoumous Work Environement🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings☕ In Office AmenitiesWant to learn more about what we are up to?<ul><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYiVPrxY8-Y">Meet the Replit Agent</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zd9hzngFwY">Replit: Make an app for that</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.replit.com/">Replit Blog</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/kCudFI4tcpg?si=l4ViCejV_f2RZkDi">Amjad TED Talk</a></li></ul>Interviewing + Culture at Replit<ul><li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.replit.com/operating-principles">Operating Principles</a></li><li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.replit.com/reasons-not-to-join-replit">Reasons not to work at Replit</a></li></ul>To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

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