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Founding Engineer - Infrastructure Staff - Ardent
Software Engineer
Senior backend engineer building scalable infrastructure for multi-tenant database sandboxes, leveraging Python, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and PostgreSQL.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement the core infrastructure platform that provisions, isolates, and manages database sandboxes for thousands of agents.
- Build highly available, auto‑scaling services in Python and Go that interact with PostgreSQL clusters and cloud resources.
- Define and maintain IaC pipelines using Terraform and Kubernetes operators to ensure reproducible environments.
- Collaborate with product and security teams to embed observability, access controls, and compliance into the platform.
- Mentor junior engineers and help shape engineering best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building large‑scale, cloud‑native services.
- Deep expertise with Python and Go, and strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL).
- Hands‑on experience deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes and AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM).
- Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools and CI/CD pipelines.
- Track record of designing reliable, secure, and performant infrastructure for multi‑tenant SaaS platforms.
Skills
pythongokubernetesawsterraformpostgresql