Obvious · 1 day ago
Staff Infrastructure Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$220K/yr - $280K/yr
10+ years expObvious is building an AI-native workspace that enhances productivity through co-intelligence. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer will own the infrastructure that supports the engineering team, focusing on building efficient deployment systems and ensuring reliability in AI operations at scale.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Make deployments boring (in the best way possible)
Own CI/CD pipelines: optimize build times, improve caching, reduce flakiness
Evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) deployment strategy for reliability and speed
Manage container builds and lambdas
Extend our telemetry with better instrumentation, smarter sampling, and actionable dashboards
Build alerting that catches actual problems and ignores noise
Make the feedback loop from code to production as fast as possible
Improve preview environments, local dev tooling, and testing infrastructure
Eliminate toil and repetitive work through thoughtful automation
Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster
Qualification
Required
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on infrastructure at scale
A proven record of exceptional achievements and impact
Willingness to work hard, move fast and grow quickly in a rapidly changing environment
An exceptional ability to learn
Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production (we run EKS)
Strong Terraform skills—you've managed real infrastructure as code
Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dash0, Braintrust, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging
PostgreSQL performance tuning, connection pooling, read replicas
AWS services: Lambda (event-driven processing, background jobs, API backends), S3, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch
You've been on-call and you've built systems that made on-call better
You think like a product manager for internal tools, where the product is developer productivity
Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed
Preferred
SRE practices: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, chaos engineering
Cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
You love the talk 'Simple Made Easy'
Benefits
Fully covered health, vision, and dental
401k match
Parental leave
Home office stipend
In-person hackathons
$10,000 home office makeover stipend
Paid co-working spaces
Company
Obvious
Manage all of your systems and produce the best work of your career in one central space. The future is Obvious.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase