Infrastructure Engineer

Member of Engineering (Infrastructure) Full-time and Remote (EMEA) About the role Design and implement the build, CI/CD, and tooling infrastructure that Poolside's researchers and engineers rely on every day. You'll join our infrastructure team as the second engineer focused on developer experience, partnering closely with the person who owns this area today while sharing on-call, incident response, and platform ownership with the wider team. You'll make our monorepo fast, our builds reproducible, and our Python ecosystem coherent, leveraging automation to multiply your impact across every team at Poolside. Your mission Make it seamless for our researchers and engineers to build, test, and ship. You'll take on significant ownership of our build and CI/CD systems, with the support of an established infrastructure team behind you. Responsibilities You will be responsible for designing and managing the infrastructure required by Poolside's engineers and researchers. Leveraging automation to multiply your impact is essential for this role. Additionally, you will develop tools and solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams. Skills & experience Build Systems Strong hands-on experience with Bazel — writing and maintaining rules, macros, and toolchains Familiarity with remote caching and build optimisations CI/CD Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably Buildkite Comfortable with dynamic pipelines, agent fleet management, and build-time optimization Python ecosystem Strong Python proficiency, including packaging, dependency management (uv/pip/Poetry), and virtual environments Experience integrating Python and ML/research codebases into a monorepo build system Proficient in Go Experience writing backend services Familiarity writing CLI applications and internal developer tooling Debugging and Problem-Solving Expertise in debugging issues on Linux, including network and process-related problems Containerization and Orchestration Experience running containers using Kubernetes Experience with managed or self-hosted Kubernetes Cloud Services Familiarity with AWS services Comfortable managing IAM policies and ensuring proper permission settings Hands-on experience with Terraform or OpenTofu for managing complex AWS environments Operations & Collaboration Skilled in observability and monitoring tools and practices Experienced in incident response protocols and best practices Comfortable working within a broader infrastructure team — sharing on-call, contributing to incident response, and building tooling other engineers depend on Process Intro call with the team lead Technical Interview(s) with a member of our engineering team Team fit call with the People team Final interview with one of our Founding engineers Benefits Fully remote work & flexible hours 37 days/year of vacation & holidays Health insurance allowance for you & dependents 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances Company-provided equipment Frequent team get togethers Diverse & inclusive people-first culture

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