Voxel51

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Voxel51

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $250,000 - $280,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • 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 in their environments, guiding them through installation, troubleshooting, and scaling
  • Lead infrastructure initiatives across engineering teams, enabling peers to develop, test, and ship features faster with robust internal tooling and automation
  • Drive best practices in CI/CD, evolving our pipelines (currently GitHub Actions + Google Cloud Build) and introducing new approaches where they add value
  • Develop and maintain deployment solutions for Voxel51-hosted environments (GKE) as well as 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 for both internal and customer environments
  • Mentor engineers and set technical direction, ensuring Voxel51’s infrastructure remains ahead of customer needs and industry trends

Requirements

  • Deep experience with containerized environments
  • Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)
  • Scripting and automation skills (Bash or similar)
  • Python expertise, including build and environment management, packaging/distribution, release management, and dependency debugging
  • CI/CD systems experience, ideally GitHub Actions (we use this today)
  • Cloud infrastructure knowledge, especially GCP (IAM, VPC, load balancing, ingress/egress routing, proxies, firewall rules)
  • Database fundamentals, ideally MongoDB or similar NoSQL systems
  • Observability skills, including designing meaningful monitors, logging, tracing, and alerting
  • Security best practices, including certificates, service accounts, least privilege, and role assumptions
  • Troubleshooting ability across complex, distributed systems (including with customers in the loop)
  • Testing mindset: comfortable with designing and applying different types of tests to validate functionality
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to work directly with enterprise customers as well as collaborate across teams in a remote-first, collaborative environment
  • Adaptability and curiosity, with the ability to ramp quickly on unfamiliar concepts and technologies
Benefits
  • equity in the form of options
  • a variety of benefits
  • opportunity to grow in an exciting and collaborative environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
containerized environmentsInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsiblescriptingautomationBashPythonCI/CDcloud infrastructure
Soft Skills
troubleshootingstrong communicationadaptabilitycuriositymentoringcollaborationdeveloper productivitybest practicestesting mindsetanticipation of failures