Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Team Infrastructure is responsible for maintaining and improving Glia's cloud-native core infrastructure, ensuring its availability, security, and performance. The team also implements and supports CI/CD, monitoring, and other tools, allowing our product teams to move fast without breaking things.

 

The work

Some of the Infrastructure Engineer’s responsibilities include:

 

• maintaining and updating Glia’s core infrastructure;
• troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure-related issues;
• improving our security posture;
• implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines;
• implementing support for telemetry;
• consulting other teams on infrastructure-related topics;
• working with third-party vendors and service providers.

 

Infrastructure Engineers report to the team’s Engineering Manager. The team’s work is driven by business goals, with priorities defined in collaboration with the Director of Engineering. All projects within the team’s space are planned, led, and executed by engineers. There is a compensated on-call duty with at least one-week rotation per month. 

 

The team’s setup:

Team Infrastructure has engineers in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax, our processes are optimized for remote collaboration. Working within any Canadian timezone is required.

 

For this role, we hire in:

• Canada (remote).

 

Our tech stack

• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Service Mesh
• Persistence: Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL)
• Cache: Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Valkey)
• Event Streaming: Apache Kafka
• Message Broker: RabbitMQ
• Monitoring: DataDog
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

Additionally, engineering teams at Glia use:

• Backend: Elixir, Ruby, Python, Javascript
• Frontend: JavaScript and ReactJS
• Native mobile SDKs: Java and Swift

Requirements

• Experience in building and maintaining reliable and highly available systems
• Experience in working with cloud infrastructure, running containerized applications and deploying serverless
• At home with Linux/Unix tools and ecosystem
• Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast
• Experience in coding that extends beyond scripting
• Proficiency in written and spoken English

 

Benefits

• Stock options and Competitive salary
• Professional development support  (trainings, courses, conferences, books, etc)
• Access to all the latest tools and equipment you’ll need 
• Sports compensation, reimbursement for therapy, counseling sessions
• Team events: annual employee awards, internal hackathons, and a dozen cool events from cooking to the Glia olympic games :)
• Diversity: 25 countries represented