Infrastructure Engineer

San Francisco, CA, us on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 27, 2025 Last posted March 27, 2025
Job description

The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Workila, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

MUST-HAVES

  • 3+ years exp. of AWS (ownership of provisioning, security and deployment) 
  • 3+ years experience working w/ Chef, Puppet or Terraform 
  • Knowledge of database management including replication, failover, optimise
  • Experience working in a high growth, modern web tech stack 

NICE-TO-HAVES

  • Experience migrating heroku to AWS
  • Experience with Terraform 
  • Ability to diagnose memory leaks in production
  • Deep understanding of MongoDB
  • ability to identify bottlenecks and improve response time
  • Experience building self-healing, highly available and scaling system 
  • Experience Forecasting infrastructure requirements 

ROLE DESCRIPTION

As we grow our user base our Infrastructure Engineer will own the tools and technology to deliver a highly scalable and reliable system. They’ll be given ownership and autonomy to determine best methods and practices to scale. The ideal candidate should have deep knowledge of cloud based technologies and best practices.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Deep understanding of AWS. MongoDB and Heroku experience preferred
  • Experience working with a modern configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Terraform; thorough understanding of configuration management concepts
  • Comfortable working in a high growth, modern web tech stack
  • Knowledge of database management - including replication, failover, redundancy and optimisation
PROJECTS:
  • Leading the migration efforts from Heroku to AWS. Increasing security and process around AWS deployment and provisioning
  • Diagnosing memory leaks in production environment
  • Identifying bottlenecks and improving response time
  • Forecasting infrastructure requirements as the business and user base grows
EXPECTATIONS
  • Proactively identify site scaling issues and help redesign systems to address them
  • Continually improve our internal infrastructure and tools
  • Provide technical feedback to other engineers through code reviews, engineering design reviews, and collaborative problem solving sessions
  • Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing

RELOCATION Up to $5,000

DIRECT REPORTS Zero

REPORTS TO Chief Technology Officer

REMOTE WORK Remote work not available

TRAVEL Travel not required

VISA Candidate visas are not supported

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or call if you have any question however applying online is the best way to apply. 

US #  571-403-0435 

India # 9999 883 470 

About this role

Summary

Manage scalable, reliable cloud infrastructure, optimize databases, and lead migration projects.

Job title

Infrastructure Engineer

Experience level

3+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

On-site in San Francisco, no remote work allowed.

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

AWSTerraformMongoDBconfiguration management

Preferred skills

Herokumemory leak diagnosissystem scaling

Specializations

AWSTerraformMongoDBconfiguration management
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City