[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure @HUD

Role Description

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems. This is not a pure infrastructure role.

• The right person has strong production infra experience, but also thinks like a backend engineer.
• They can reason about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and how product requirements translate into resilient systems.
• You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on.

Responsibilities

• Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management.
• Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths.
• Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly.
• Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk.
• Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling.

Qualifications

• Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost.
• Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management is strongly preferred.
• Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems.
• Have strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes.
• Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows.

Requirements

• Experience operating infrastructure for data-heavy, ML/AI, workflow, marketplace, developer-tools, or enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing systems for bursty workloads, long-running jobs, sandboxed execution, distributed workers, or high-concurrency services.
• Experience reducing cloud spend through better architecture, autoscaling, workload placement, caching, cleanup systems, or observability.
• Experience building internal platforms or tools that make engineers faster without hiding too much complexity.
• We prioritize technical aptitude, ownership, and learning potential over years of experience.

Logistics

• Employment: Full-time.
• Location: We have offices in San Francisco or Singapore but are open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.
• Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.
• Timeline: Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees).
• Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office (in-office employees).
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays.
• Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits (US employees).
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.