[Hiring] Senior Infrastructure Engineer II @Kit

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer II to take ownership of a large share of Kit's core infrastructure: databases, Kubernetes, version upgrades, platform tooling, and day-to-day support. You'll also build the paved paths that let engineers, non-engineers, and AI agents test and ship changes safely.

The infrastructure supports creators who depend on Kit to reach their audiences and earn a living. When it's healthy, nobody notices. That's the job.

This is a full-time Individual Contributor role for an experienced infrastructure engineer who likes owning production systems end to end, takes on-call seriously, leans into automation and enjoys making other people's work easier.

Qualifications

• Running production infrastructure on AWS at scale, including managed relational databases, networking, and load balancing
• Operating Kubernetes in production: upgrades, capacity planning, and troubleshooting
• Managing infrastructure as code and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that engineers trust
• Building monitoring and alerting that catches real problems early and doesn't page people for noise
• Diagnosing complex, multi-service incidents calmly, then fixing the underlying cause
• Cutting cloud costs through right-sizing and reserved capacity without hurting reliability
• Writing clear runbooks, docs, and decision write-ups
• Nice to have: experience with Cloudflare, ephemeral or sandbox environments, or email sending infrastructure

Requirements

• Around 7 or more years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles
• Owning production infrastructure for a product where downtime costs customers money
• Carrying a pager for systems you owned, and making that on-call rotation quieter over time
• Leading a major upgrade or migration, such as a database or Kubernetes version upgrade, with little or no customer impact
• Building self-service tooling or paved paths that other engineers actually adopted
• Working on a small infrastructure team where you couldn't hand problems off to a specialist

Benefits

• Profit Sharing
• Kit equity
• 401k with a 5% match
• We cover up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered. We offer Health Insurance plans through Aetna
• $2,000 equipment allowance for your first two years, $1,000 budget every following two years. Company-provided laptops are issued to every Kit team member and are not included in the equipment budget
• Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year)
• Creator meetup budget ($50/month) to connect with creators over coffee, lunch, or other in-person meetups
• Gender affirming benefits
• Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON
• Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment
• Paid paid vacation: An after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation where you’re fully unplugged from work
• Ten (10) paid holidays a year
• Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health + well being days
• Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in your child’s first year
• Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster after six months of employment, two weeks of each paid leave in your first six months
• Winter Break Closure: Kit closes for a week at the end of December, giving everyone a collective break to enjoy the holiday season.
• Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team
• Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year

How to apply

We usually receive a large number of applications, and our goal is to follow up with you within two weeks. You’ll hear from us either way. Here’s what you can expect from the rest of our hiring process:

• A phone screen with our recruiter (30 min)
• Hiring manager interview (45 min)
• Take-home assignment
• Technical interview (60 min)

We’ll keep you informed through every step. To get started, complete this application, including a cover letter and answers to the questions on the next page. We read every single application, and your cover letter and responses help put your experience into context.

Company Description

Kit is the email marketing platform experts choose to grow their audience, deepen their relationships, and build a business around the work they love. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform.

More importantly, there isn't a team more committed to helping creators earn a living. We're on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote.

We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next.