[Hiring] Platform Infrastructure Engineer @Menlo Security

Role Description

Platform Infrastructure Engineering builds and operates Menlo Security's Infrastructure Platform, enabling our customers to connect to the Internet without compromise. As a Platform Infrastructure Engineer, you'll join a globally distributed team of experienced engineers building and managing the company's core infrastructure services on a cloud-native platform built on Google Kubernetes Engine and VMs spanning multiple regions and environments.

• The team manages infrastructure as code with Terraform and Spacelift, deploys with Helm, and emphasizes security-first design, comprehensive observability, and multi-region resilience.
• The team also uses AI-assisted development and code-review tools, including Gemini Code Assist, as part of the standard engineering workflow.
• This role is expected to use LLM-based tooling to build and troubleshoot infrastructure code efficiently.

Outcomes & KPIs

• Reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure across GCP and AWS supporting Menlo's platform globally.
• Reduced operational toil and incident recurrence through automation and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Comprehensive, end-to-end observability framework providing deep platform visibility, proactive health monitoring, and accelerated incident detection and resolution.

• Infrastructure uptime/availability across regions (e.g., 99.9%+)
• Mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) for incidents
• Percentage of infrastructure changes deployed via IaC (Terraform) vs. manual changes
• On-call incident volume and reduction in repeat/preventable incidents
• Lead time for provisioning new infrastructure

What You'll Do

• Implement, deploy, and maintain VM and Kubernetes infrastructure on GCP and AWS across dozens of clusters spanning development, staging, and production environments in multiple regions.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform modules and Spacelift (or equivalent TACOS), provisioning networking, compute, storage, and security components, and implementing multi-layer configuration management workflows.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions using Grafana Cloud, Prometheus/Mimir, and OTel collectors, designing dashboards and alerting rules across all platform components.
• Manage certificate lifecycle, DNS automation, ingress controllers, and service mesh networking with Cilium.
• Partner with peers and across Engineering, Product, Compliance, and Security teams to align on requirements and consult on capacity planning, disaster recovery, and architectural decisions.
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation — writing scripts, building CI/CD pipelines, and using AI-assisted coding tools to move faster.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation as part of a globally distributed team, responding to incidents and driving post-incident reviews.

Functional Competencies

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in common programming and scripting languages, particularly Python, Bash, and Go.
• Understanding of network topologies, communication protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, HTTP/S, UDP, TLS), and enterprise-grade connectivity solutions.
• Kubernetes expertise, including cluster administration, RBAC, networking, workload management, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform services including GKE, VPC networking, Cloud DNS, Artifact Registry, Secret Manager, IAM, Gemini Code Assist, and Workload Identity.
• Clear understanding of how to use LLM-based code-assist tools to effectively build and troubleshoot software.

Preferred / Nice to Have:

• Experience with GitOps methodologies and tools.

Our Compensation and Benefits

At Menlo Security, Base Salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is 105,000 - 185,000 USD.

In accordance with Canadian law, the range provided is Menlo Security’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. All employees may be eligible to become Menlo Security shareholders through eligibility for stock-based compensation grants, which are awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.