Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About HUD

About the role

Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure who can own the reliability scale performance and developer experience of HUDs core infrastructure and backend systems.

This is not a pure infrastructure role. The right person has strong production infra experience but also thinks like a backend engineer: they can reason about service architecture queues databases APIs deployment safety performance bottlenecks and how product requirements translate into resilient systems. Youll work across AWS Kubernetes Terraform CI/CD observability and backend services to make HUD faster more reliable cheaper to run and easier for engineers to build on.

Responsibilities

• Own production uptime latency provisioning speed infrastructure cost and incident response for core platform services

• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform Kubernetes/EKS Helm Docker EC2 CodeBuild ECR S3 IAM networking and secrets management

• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale including capacity planning autoscaling queueing backpressure cleanup jobs retries and rollback paths

• Define and improve dashboards alerts logs traces SLOs runbooks and on-call workflows so failures are detected debugged and resolved quickly

• Build reliable CI/CD release automation environment management and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk

• Write clean maintainable code where needed to automate systems improve backend services and create internal tooling

Experience

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability user-facing platform with responsibility for uptime performance deployment safety and cost

• Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with tools like Terraform Kubernetes/EKS Docker EC2 CodeBuild ECR S3 IAM load balancers networking and secrets management is strongly preferred

• Have built or operated CI/CD environment management release automation observability alerting and incident response systems

• Have strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture APIs databases async systems queues scaling limits and production failure modes

• Can write clean maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture infrastructure backend systems and developer workflows

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy ML/AI workflow marketplace developer-tools or enterprise platforms

• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads long-running jobs sandboxed execution distributed workers or high-concurrency services

• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture autoscaling workload placement caching cleanup systems or observability

• Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster without hiding too much complexity

We prioritize technical aptitude ownership and learning potential over years of experience.

Team & company details

• Team Size : 25 people currently mostly full-time in-person but some remote.

• Our team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI ILO IPhO) serial AI startup founders and researchers with publications at ICLR NeurIPS etc.

• Company stage: We have 8 figures in funding and are scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.

Logistics

• Employment : Full-time.

• Location : We have offices in San Francisco or Singapore but are open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.

• Visa Sponsorship : We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.

• Timeline : Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation

• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical dental and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)

• Lunch and dinner when youre in the office (in-office employees)

• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Years Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays

• Other perks including an Equinox membership 401k and commuter benefits (US employees)

• Unlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT Claude Code Cursor etc. * By unlimited we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.

Compensation

Actual offers are adjusted for experience and location but our base salary bands are

• San Francisco (and other major US cities): $175000 - $260000

• Singapore: $130000 - $195000

• Rest of world: $105000 - $195000

Due to high volume we may not actively respond to every application but feel free to contact us at or elsewhere if we missed your application!

Required Experience:

Senior IC