Staff Infrastructure Engineer

About CookUnity

CookUnity is a chef-to-you marketplace connecting talented chefs with consumers, revolutionizing meal delivery. We bring small-batch, restaurant-quality meals to eaters nationwide, crafted by a diverse collective of all-star chefs. With over 100 inspired chefs from cities like NYC, LA, Austin, and more, our weekly subscription offers a wide range of hand-crafted meals to cater to various palates and dietary preferences.

Delivering over 3 million meals per month, we empower working chefs, tripling their income and supporting their growth. CookUnity is committed to fueling stronger communities by embracing opportunities to make a positive social impact, whether through combating food insecurity, supporting local businesses, or creating opportunities for culinary talent across the Americas.

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The Role:

As a Staff Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing and architecting scalable and reliable platforms that empower our engineers to deliver features to our customers efficiently. This is a highly cross-functional role requiring close collaboration with engineering, data, and product teams to drive impactful changes. You will ensure the seamless operation of our cloud infrastructure, observability tools, and continuous deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities:

 

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects and effectively influence and coach Engineers on best practices to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
• Kubernetes & EKS: Manage Kubernetes clusters and EKS environments, ensuring efficient scaling and high availability of our applications.
• Infrastructure as Code: Create and maintain a robust framework for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated infrastructure deployment and management.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Implement and manage efficient and reliable CI/CD pipelines with GitLab for seamless software delivery.
• Database Management: Manage our growing database fleet (including RDS Postgres and MySQL), ensuring seamless database migrations, data integrity, and reliability. Partner with engineering teams to foster best data management practices.
• Event Streaming: Design, implement, and manage event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis) to enable real-time data processing and asynchronous communication between services.
• Infrastructure Security: Implement and maintain robust security measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems.
• Observability & Monitoring: Develop and maintain an holistic approach to observability and infrastructure monitoring to proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact our services.

 

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience with AWS and advanced multi-region cloud networking concepts.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) knowledge and experience with Terraform.
• Extensive experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Experience with Kubernetes and EKS to manage containerized applications at scale.
• Experience with database management and decentralized database migrations.
• Proficiency in implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines to achieve efficient software delivery.

Preferred Requirements:

 

• Proficiency in Python, NodeJs, Golang and/or Bash.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in production.
• Experience with GitOps principles and tools, such as ArgoCD.
• Experience with event streaming platforms, such as Kafka, in particular use of MSK in AWS environments.
• Knowledge of infrastructure security best practices and experience in implementing security measures.

 

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Benefits:

 

💸 Get paid in USD, Crypto, Euro, ARS. Whatever your choice! We use Deel to make things easier for you!

🗺 Work remotely: design the life that you want.

⛱ Enjoy 15 business days of vacation each year from the start date.

🎄16 fully paid Argentinean holidays.

🩺 Healthcare Benefit: Monthly stipend to use in your preferred healthcare provider.

🗓️ 5-year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical.

🐣 Family leave of 12 weeks for primary caregiver and 6 weeks for secondary caregiver, fully paid.

🕯 Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Customize the benefits that suit your needs! Access a range of perks tailored to you, including learning opportunities, wellness memberships, delivery apps, and more through our comprehensive benefit platform.

🧑‍🏫 Personalized English coach.

 

If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we'll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.