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Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes

Alexander Chapman

on-sitemidpermanentdevopsbackend San Francisco Bay Area Yesterday via LinkedIn

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Tags

KubernetesAWSTerraformPulumiPythonLinux NetworkingML/LLM InfrastructureGPU SchedulingCiliumIstio

About the role

Role Overview

Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes) to build and operate the infrastructure behind large-scale LLM inference. You’ll own the systems that enable reliable, low-latency AI workloads used by millions of users.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple regions and cloud providers
  • Build and scale infrastructure for global AI inference workloads
  • Own platform components including:
    • Networking and load balancing
    • Service mesh
    • Observability (monitoring, logging, tracing)
    • Cloud infrastructure for production systems
  • Manage GPU infrastructure and autoscaling for ML workloads
  • Build infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Python, Pulumi, Terraform)
  • Improve platform reliability and operational excellence

Requirements

  • Strong production Kubernetes experience
  • Deep AWS and cloud infrastructure knowledge
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)
  • Solid Linux networking fundamentals
  • Python programming experience
  • Experience supporting high-scale production systems

Nice to Have

  • Experience with ML/LLM infrastructure, GPU scheduling, and/or Kubernetes networking (Cilium, Istio, Envoy)
  • Experience with multi-cloud environments

About Alexander Chapman

Alexander Chapman is partnering with a frontier AI startup building large-scale AI systems focused on reliability, reasoning, and autonomous decision-making. The company is backed by nearly $40M in Seed funding and is developing infrastructure that powers AI products at global scale.

Scraped 7/31/2026