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Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Remote · Washington DC$100k–$200k/yrPosted 7 days ago
InfrastructureSeniorFull TimeSponsorship mentioned
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We're looking for a Software Engineer, Infrastructure to build the systems that power Capitol's platform — from cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes operations to CI/CD, observability, and internal tooling. You'll make a huge impact as part of a small team and have meaningful influence over how we scale and secure our infrastructure as we grow.

This is a high-ownership role. You'll be solving real problems across multi-tenant and single tenant environments serving enterprise and government clients.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.

  • Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that improve developer velocity without sacrificing quality.

  • Operate and improve Kubernetes-based systems, ensuring reliability across development and production environments.

  • Drive observability — defining metrics, building dashboards, and making system health visible and actionable.

  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems.

  • Contribute to compliance efforts (SOC 2 and beyond), translating controls into infrastructure reality.

  • Build internal tooling and automation that makes engineers more productive.

  • Collaborate proactively across teams, surfacing issues before they become blockers.

  • You May Be a Good Fit If You

  • Have 7+ years building and operating production infrastructure.

  • Have led complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects end to end.

  • Take ownership — you drive things to completion without waiting to be asked.

  • Communicate clearly and proactively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Are fluent in Python, Go, Rust, or similar.

  • Have deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, and at least one major cloud (GCP, Azure, or preferably AWS).

  • Are experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).

  • Have worked with security or compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, or similar).

  • Have enterprise software experience — you understand the constraints, expectations, and deployment patterns that come with large organizational clients.

  • Have operated data or AI infrastructure at scale — experience running and supporting systems like Ray, Spark, or Temporal in production, where reliability and throughput directly impact model training or inference workloads.

  • Strong Candidates May Also Have

  • Experience in early-stage startups or hyper-growth environments.

  • Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS architecture, data isolation, and GitOps patterns.

  • Government or regulated industry experience.

  • Contributions to open source infrastructure projects.

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