Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Company Overview
We create social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. Our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Buffer is a fully distributed team, and we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently at Buffer. Since the early days, we’ve focused on building one of the most unique and fulfilling workplaces by rethinking a lot of traditional practices.
Job Summary
As Buffer's next Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll join two seasoned Infrastructure Engineers on a small, deliberate, high-leverage team. Together, you'll run the platform that lets every Buffer engineer ship, and that indirectly lets millions of creators publish, grow, and earn a living on the social web.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day reliability of our production platform.
- Build progressive delivery into something the rest of engineering trusts.
- Build developer tools as products, instead of loose scripts.
- Reduce operational toil with AI.
- Keep the stack current.
- Improve the economics of our platform.
- Partner with EPD on the platform they build on.
Requirements / Qualifications
- You've worked as an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, or in a DevOps or platform engineering role.
- You've run production Kubernetes.
- You know AWS and Terraform well.
- You've operated production CI/CD and GitOps.
- You've built internal developer tooling.
- You thrive in remote, async environments.
- You're fluent with modern AI tools.
- You have a personal stake in making and publishing things.
Preferred Qualifications
- Already a Buffer user, or knowledge of the social media management space.
- Experience with Datadog, Sentry, or a similar observability stack.
- Prior Cloudflare experience across Workers, Zero Trust, and DNS.
- An open source Terraform module or tool contribution.
Technology Stack
Cloud and IaC: AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Terraform.
Container orchestration and delivery: Kubernetes on EKS, Helm, KEDA, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts.
CI/CD: GitHub Actions.
Observability: Datadog, Sentry, Incident.io, PagerDuty.
Networking: Cloudflare, CloudFront, VPC peering, OctoDNS.
Languages and runtimes: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, PHP.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary with a formula that adjusts to your cost of living and experience.
- 4-Day workweeks.
- Health insurance for all team members.
- $1000 Home office setup.
- Growth mindset fund.
- New laptop every 3 years.
- Unlimited free books.
- AI tools stipend.
- Flexible time off.
- Savings plan with 3% company match.
- Profit sharing.
- 16 weeks of fully paid family leave.
- Family support fund.
- Working smarter stipend.
- 6-week paid sabbaticals after every 5 years.
Employment Type
Full time
Location
Remote (Preference for at least 4 hours of overlap with EMEA time zones).
Hiring Process
- Application
- Hiring manager interview
- Take-home exercise
- Technical interview
- Leadership interview
- Final interview
- Collaboration period (fully paid)
- Offer
Equal Opportunity Statement
We strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we are building a culture where underrepresented groups are welcome and can flourish.
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