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Infrastructure Engineer, Database

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Infrastructure Engineer, Database in USA

  • LangChain
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Own SmithDB deployment and operations across cloud environments, including cluster lifecycle management, blue/green and rolling upgrades, and automated failover.
  • Build and maintain infrastructure tooling with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent to provision, configure, and scale SmithDB nodes.
  • Own the Kubernetes infrastructure supporting multi-tenant, high-throughput, low-latency distributed database services.
  • Build deployment pipelines, rollout strategies, and infrastructure-as-code for the storage layer.
  • Drive reliability engineering through incident response, postmortems, SLOs, and disaster recovery.
  • Manage capacity planning and cost efficiency, including growth modeling, resource rightsizing, and automated handling of customer traffic spikes.
  • Build safe, tested, and fast CI/CD promotion pipelines for database infrastructure changes.
  • Partner with SmithDB internals engineers on production-ready infrastructure changes and low-risk rollouts.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, or SRE with hands-on experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Scripting or systems programming ability in Go, Python, or a similar language.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tooling such as Terraform, Helm, or ArgoCD.
  • Deep familiarity with at least one major cloud provider and the primitives used to run stateful workloads reliably.
  • Fluency with infrastructure-as-code, with Terraform or an equivalent such as Pulumi or CDK as a primary tool.
  • Experience operating high-traffic data systems, participating in on-call response, triaging incidents, and writing runbooks.
  • Experience with Kubernetes container orchestration and deploying stateful workloads in production.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain infrastructure health to product and business stakeholders.
  • Experience owning production database systems such as Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis, or similar is preferred.
  • Comfort reading and reasoning about Rust is preferred.
  • Understanding of replication, backups, point-in-time recovery, connection pooling, and graceful degradation under load is preferred.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible vacation.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Meals on in-office days in the US.
  • Compensation includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, equity, benefits, and perks.
  • Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

Salary: $180k - $230k/yr

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