[Hiring] Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer @Restate

Role Description

Build the infrastructure platform powering durable execution. The next generation of applications will be long-running, integration-heavy, and increasingly autonomous. As systems become more agentic and failure-prone, durable execution transforms reliability from an application concern into a platform capability. Restate sits at the center of that shift.

Restate ( restate.dev ) turns AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes, allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than retries, state recovery, and failure handling. We're looking for a Senior to Staff-level Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure platform that powers Restate across open source, self-hosted deployments, multi-tenant SaaS, and Bring Your Own Cloud environments. This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and platform engineering.

What you'll own

• The infrastructure and control plane powering Restate Cloud.
• The systems enabling BYOC and self-hosted deployments.
• Reliability, observability, and operational excellence across the fleet.
• Automation and tooling that allow the platform to scale efficiently.
• Production operations and participation in the cloud on-call rotation.

You will operate across networking, storage, Kubernetes, cloud APIs, observability, and infrastructure automation while owning systems end-to-end from design through production.

Why this role is interesting

• Durable execution is becoming foundational infrastructure.
• As AI systems become increasingly long-running and stateful, durable runtimes are emerging as a core infrastructure primitive.
• You'll help build the platform enabling that transition.
• Build infrastructure from first principles.
• Restate reimagines durable execution as a lightweight, self-contained runtime:
• Single Rust binary deployment.
• Custom storage layer.
• Low-latency orchestration engine.
• Integrated observability.
• No external database dependency.
• Work on systems where reliability matters.
• Restate powers workloads running inside Fortune 500 enterprises, financial institutions, and AI-native startups building production-grade agents and workflows.
• The systems you build operate in environments where correctness and operational simplicity are mission critical.
• Work with exceptional engineers.
• You'll work directly with engineers who built foundational distributed systems at global scale, including creators of Apache Flink and leaders from Meta's messaging infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• Experience operating large-scale SaaS or platform infrastructure in production.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based systems.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation.
• Strong software engineering skills in Rust, Go, or C++.
• Comfort owning systems from design through operations.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and operate with significant autonomy.

Requirements

• Kubernetes operator development (nice to have).
• Cluster API, Crossplane, or Terraform experience (nice to have).
• Experience with multi-tenant control planes (nice to have).
• Experience operating infrastructure in enterprise or compliance-sensitive environments (nice to have).
• Familiarity with durable execution systems or workflow runtimes (nice to have).

This role may not be a fit if

• You prefer working on runtime internals rather than cloud infrastructure.
• You prefer architecture and review work over hands-on ownership.
• You are uncomfortable operating production infrastructure or participating in on-call rotations.

Location

• Fully remote within the United States.
• East Coast candidates are preferred to improve on-call coverage.
• Minimal travel requirements.