Senior Infrastructure Engineer

🕒 October 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $197k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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Kit (formerly ConvertKit)

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

📣 Marketing

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 Seed Round on 2020-11

Marketing • eCommerce • SaaS

Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is the email-first operating system designed specifically for creators who want to build a valuable and purposeful business. It provides tools for managing email marketing, automating customer journeys, and integrating with other platforms, enabling users like authors, bloggers, and YouTubers to engage deeply with their audience and efficiently run their businesses. Kit focuses on fostering relationships and enhancing the impact of creators’ work beyond just monetary gains by offering features like personalized content recommendations, landing pages, and sales automation.

📋 Description

• Own core infrastructure areas end to end, including databases, Kubernetes, version upgrades, and platform tooling • Provide day-to-day infrastructure support • Build paved paths that enable engineers, non-engineers, and AI agents to test and ship changes safely • Gain access to and work with AWS accounts, Kubernetes clusters, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines • Read and improve runbooks and architecture documentation • Ship infrastructure improvements such as version upgrades and monitoring fixes • Participate in and eventually own a share of the on-call rotation • Become the go-to person for day-to-day infrastructure questions • Reduce recurring sources of pages • Build sandbox environments for AI agents or non-engineers • Lead infrastructure projects independently • Maintain uptime at 99.9% or better • Reduce page volume and identify cost savings • Improve observability so AI agents can handle some on-call load • Document infrastructure decisions • Report to the VP of Engineering and collaborate with infrastructure, product engineering, and non-engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Around 7 or more years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE roles • Experience running production infrastructure on AWS at scale, including managed relational databases, networking, and load balancing • Experience operating Kubernetes in production, including upgrades, capacity planning, and troubleshooting • Experience managing infrastructure as code • Experience maintaining CI/CD pipelines • Experience building monitoring and alerting systems • Experience diagnosing complex, multi-service incidents • Experience cutting cloud costs through right-sizing and reserved capacity • Experience writing clear runbooks, documentation, and decision write-ups • Experience owning production infrastructure for a product where downtime costs customers money • Experience carrying a pager for systems owned and improving on-call rotations • Experience leading a major upgrade or migration with little or no customer impact • Experience building self-service tooling or paved paths adopted by engineers • Experience working on a small infrastructure team • Ability to participate in a three-person on-call rotation and respond to pages outside usual working hours • Nice to have: experience with Cloudflare, ephemeral or sandbox environments, or email sending infrastructure

🏖️ Benefits

• Profit Sharing • Kit equity • 401k with a 5% match • Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums; dental and vision premiums fully covered; Aetna health insurance plans • $2,000 equipment allowance for the first two years; $1,000 budget every following two years • Company-provided laptops • Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year) • Creator meetup budget ($50/month) • Gender affirming benefits • Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON • Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment • After-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation while 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 the child’s first year • Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster leave after six months; two weeks of each paid leave in the first six months • Winter Break Closure with collective break at the end of December • Four-week paid sabbatical after five years • In-person or virtual team retreats twice a year

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