[Remote] Staff Infrastructure Engineer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Checkly is a leading synthetic monitoring platform that empowers developers to ensure application performance and reliability. The Staff Infrastructure Engineer will work with a team of skilled engineers to optimize hybrid AWS and bare metal infrastructure, investigate customer and infrastructure problems, and collaborate with product engineers to improve developer experience. Responsibilities • Work with a team of highly skilled Staff and Senior Engineers • Evolve and optimize our hybrid AWS and bare metal infrastructure to securely run sandboxed code and AI Agents with industry leading arenaflex efficiency • Investigate customer and infrastructure problems down to the packet capture and process memory level together with the team to ensure customers can trust Checkly • Contribute to infrastructure reliability and ensure systems stay snappy for ad hoc and scheduled workloads without breaking or exploding costs • Collaborate with product engineers to improve developer experience, support our strong shipping culture and provide observability they need Skills • Hands-on experience building and maintaining bare metal and cloud infrastructure for production services • Deep Linux administration experience • Experience managing automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible or similar tools • Basic or ideally advanced Kubernetes knowledge • Excellent spoken and written English skills • Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others • FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones Benefits • Stock options • 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays • Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave • $1,500 learning, visiting and wellbeing budget • Co-working budget or home office setup • Bi-annual company retreats Company Overview • Build & run synthetics that scale It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Berlin, Berlin, DEU, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job

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