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Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Data Acquisition & Observability

Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Data Acquisition & Observability

CompanyPsiQuantum
LocationPalo Alto, CA, USA
Salary$180000 – $215000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelExpert or higher

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.