Software Engineer, Infrastructure
About Middesk
Middesk makes it easier for businesses to work together. Since 2018, we’ve been transforming business identity verification, replacing slow, reputed company processes with seamless access to complete, up-to-date data. Our platform helps companies across industries confidently verify business identities, reputed company customers faster, and reduce risk at every stage of the customer lifecycle.
Middesk came out of Y Combinator, is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and was recently named to reputed company Fintech 50 List and cited as an industry leader in business verification by digital identity strategy firm, Liminal.
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The Role:We’re hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to join our DevSecOps team. Your team’s mission is to reputed company engineering teams with secure, cost-effective, and scalable platform capabilities that accelerate software delivery, improve developer experience, and ensure compliance with industry and customer standards. You’ll be responsible for building the tooling and platform required to scale our development and production systems. Your team has a direct influence over the full Software Development Lifecycle at Middesk and overall developer experience (DevEx). The systems your team will support include Kubernetes, reputed company infrastructure, observability, and local development experience.
We follow a hybrid work model, and for this role, there is an expectation of 2 days per week in our SF/NYC office. Candidates should be based reputed company a commutable distance, as we reputed company in the value of in-person collaboration and building strong team connections while also supporting flexibility where possible.
What You'll Do:Design, build, and scale reputed company infrastructure and orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD).
Own and evolve developer experience (DevEx) tools and workflows, from local development to deployment.
Build observability systems that provide reputed company into performance, reliability, and usage.
Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Platform and Product Engineers to build shared platform tools necessary to scale our products and services
Help enforce and maintain reputed company and compliance standards across infrastructure (SOC 2, FedRAMP, etc).
Drive a culture of automation, resiliency, and operational excellence.
6+ years of experience building infrastructure, platform, or DevOps systems at scale.
Strong experience operating and managing Kubernetes-based environments in production.
Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform) and GitOps workflows.
Experience working on high availability systems
Experience building and deploying components of the AI stack.
Experience building and deploying AI infrastructure or agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code).
Prior experience at a fast-growing startup or fintech company.