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Wander · 1 day ago

Infrastructure Engineer (Platform / Reliability)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level

Wander is revolutionizing the short-term rental industry and is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate their platform. This role involves ensuring reliable environments, predictable deployments, and resilient systems while collaborating closely with application engineers to enhance developer velocity.

LeisureRentalSmart HomeTourismTravel Accommodations
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Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate GKE-based infrastructure for production and non-production environments
Own availability, resilience, and uptime for core platform services
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that are fast, reliable, and boring
Enable safe, repeatable deployments (progressive delivery, rollbacks, environment parity)
Support and evolve event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async workflows)
Implement strong monitoring, alerting, and observability so issues are found before customers do
Create one-click or near-zero-friction developer environments
Partner with application engineers to remove friction and improve developer velocity
Automate aggressively — manual steps are bugs
Document systems and decisions so the platform scales with the team

Qualification

GKEDistributed systemsEvent-driven systemsCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as codeMonitoring systemsDeveloper experienceAsynchronous workWillingness to learn

Required

Solid experience running production workloads on GKE (or equivalent Kubernetes environments)
Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: Failure modes, backpressure, retries, idempotency, Event delivery semantics and ordering
Experience building event-driven systems (pub/sub, queues, streams)
Proven track record improving: Uptime and reliability, Deployment safety, Mean time to recovery (MTTR)
Experience with: CI/CD and delivery pipelines, Infrastructure as code, Monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
A strong bias toward developer experience. If developers are slowed down, that's a platform bug
Comfort working asynchronously with minimal process overhead
Willingness to learn — we don't expect perfection, we expect progress

Company

Wander

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Wander is a luxury rental company that provides smart home travel services.
dateFounded in 2021
location
Austin, Texas, USA
people-size201-500 employees
web-link
https://wander.com

H1B Sponsorship

Wander has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$198.12M
Key Investors
Credit SuisseQED InvestorsRedpoint
2025-05-28Series B· $50M
2024-12-06Series Unknown· $15.82M
2023-04-12Series A

Leadership Team

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John Andrew Entwistle
Founder, CEO
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Kyle Tibbitts
Chief Marketing Officer
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Recent News

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2025-06-03
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