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Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Data Acquisition & Observability
Company | PsiQuantum |
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Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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Salary | $180000 – $215000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years in infrastructure engineering, platform deployment, or DevOps managing high performance data pipelines.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh architectures.
- Strong understanding of high-performance networking for data pipelines.
- Experience with streaming/messaging platforms (Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, RabbitMQ).
- Strong background in real-time data pipelines and observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Deep knowledge of high-performance databases (Postgres, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Cassandra).
- Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-prem infrastructure.
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK stack).
- Knowledge of CI/CD workflows and automated deployment strategies.
- Able to work effectively across a number of different teams/functionalities.
- Excellent communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build and manage scalable infrastructure to support data pipelines and observability services.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
- Optimize platform performance for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
- Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized services.
- Implement automated deployment, CI/CD, and system monitoring solutions.
- Ensure networking, security, and system reliability across cloud and bare-metal environments.
- Collaborate with software engineers on system integration and data engineers on storage and schema management.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.