About the company
Flexport believes global trade can move the human race forward. Companies of all sizes use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The PSI (Platform, Security & Infrastructure) team builds and operates the infrastructure and foundations that hundreds of engineers rely on.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate reliable, scalable infrastructure in AWS and other cloud platforms
- Contribute to container orchestration (Kubernetes), Helm charts, deployment systems (Argo) and guardrails
- Improve observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog)
- Follow and refine standards for Infrastructure-as-Code codebases (Terraform)
- Support developers with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, GitHub Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go, Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, GitHub)
- Improve incident response tooling
- Partner with product teams to ship changes that impact the wider engineering org
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering, site reliability engineering or infrastructure engineering experience with production system infrastructure
- Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure with hands-on AWS experience
- Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills, preferably with Terraform
- Solid software engineering skills and ability to build automation and production tooling in a general-purpose programming language
- Experience participating in incident response and blameless post-mortems or COE processes
- Good judgment around infrastructure: security, IAM, networking and change management
- Strong communication skills
Conditions
- Nice to have: experience operating AWS at scale across multiple accounts, regions and availability zones
- Nice to have: experience with GitOps and continuous delivery tooling such as Argo CD
- Nice to have: experience with Identity and Access Management, including OIDC
- Nice to have: exposure to disaster recovery, business continuity, or resilience testing
- Nice to have: experience improving cloud cost efficiency and resource utilization
- Office attendance 3 times a week
- Latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one
- Agile, but not dogmatic