Staff Infrastructure Engineer

🕒 January 23

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Obvious

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11 - 50 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Productivity • Enterprise

Obvious is a cloud-based workspace platform that centralizes tools and systems so professionals can manage work and produce higher-quality output from a single interface. Currently in alpha with early access, Obvious targets knowledge workers and teams seeking a unified, productivity-focused SaaS solution for organizing workflows, reducing context-switching, and improving collaboration.

📋 Description

• Make deployments boring (in the best way possible) • Own CI/CD pipelines: optimize build times, improve caching, reduce flakiness • Evolve our Kubernetes (EKS) deployment strategy for reliability and speed • Manage container builds and lambdas • Extend our telemetry with better instrumentation, smarter sampling, and actionable dashboards • Build alerting that catches actual problems and ignores noise • Make the feedback loop from code to production as fast as possible • Improve preview environments, local dev tooling, and testing infrastructure • Eliminate toil and repetitive work through thoughtful automation • Be the engineer who makes other engineers faster

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years focused on infrastructure at scale • A proven record of exceptional achievements and impact • Willingness to work hard, move fast and grow quickly in a rapidly changing environment • An exceptional ability to learn • Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production (we run EKS) • Strong Terraform skills—you've managed real infrastructure as code • Experience building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines • Hands-on with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dash0, Braintrust, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging • PostgreSQL performance tuning, connection pooling, read replicas • AWS services: Lambda (event-driven processing, background jobs, API backends), S3, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch • You've been on-call and you've built systems that made on-call better • You think like a product manager for internal tools, where the product is developer productivity • Have a humble attitude, an eagerness to help your colleagues, and a desire to do whatever it takes to make the team succeed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation—optimized for you and your future. • Meaningful equity—you’ll own a real piece of something that could be huge. • Founding team influence—your voice will shape direction. • Creative freedom—evolve and steer both current and future product identity. • Platform to shine—use Obvious’s reach to amplify your personal brand and design voice. • Room to grow—as we scale, opportunities are limitless. • In-person hackathons—we’re semi‑distributed and regularly meet in person to lock in and build together. • Excellent benefits—fully covered health, vision, and dental, 401k match, parental leave, home office stipend, and more. • Work comfortably—choose between a $10,000 home office makeover stipend or paid co-working spaces.