Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

🕒 August 11

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $180k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Imgix

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

🔌 API

🤝 B2B

💰 $4M Series A - Imgix on 2016-10

SaaS • API • B2B

Imgix is a visual media platform that automates image and video processing, optimization, transformation, and high-performance delivery at scale. The company provides real-time automatic compression, format negotiation (e. g. , AVIF/WebP fallbacks), AI-powered transformations (background removal, generative fill, image-to-video), smart cropping, adaptive streaming, captions, and global CDN delivery — accessible via URL parameters and an API. Imgix targets teams building fast, media-rich sites and apps (B2B customers like Unsplash, Skims, and Porsche) and advertises features for eCommerce, media, automotive, and real estate use cases.

📋 Description

• Write and maintain production Python services handling billions of daily requests, including core rendering and delivery infrastructure • Design systems with failure modes, cost, and performance in mind, and own them through deployment and beyond • Build infrastructure tooling and automation using Terraform, CI/CD, and Docker • Collaborate across engineering on cloud cost optimization while balancing reliability and performance with budget constraints • Support 99.99%+ uptime through monitoring, incident response, and on-call rotation • Create operational references, design documents, and alert guides • Deploy, monitor, debug, and improve production systems • Investigate root causes of incidents and implement preventative fixes

🎯 Requirements

• Strong Python development skills and ability to write clean, maintainable production code • 5+ years of experience with a major cloud provider • Experience with multi-region cloud deployments • GCP experience strongly preferred; AWS or Azure also considered • Terraform or OpenTofu infrastructure-as-code experience • Experience deploying infrastructure through CI/CD • Linux fundamentals • Experience with on-call duties and production incident triage using logs and metrics • Ability to investigate root causes independently • Strong async written communication skills • Experience with CDNs, caching infrastructure, or visual media pipelines is a bonus • Familiarity with GDPR and SOC 2 is a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • Paid leave • Remote-first work arrangement • Option to work from the San Francisco office if local