Remote Position
[Remote] Software Engineer - Platform / Core Infrastructure - Americas
🌍 Remote · New Zealand
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. XBOW is building an AI-powered platform for offensive security that autonomously discovers, validates, and exploits vulnerabilities. The Software Engineer - Platform / Core Infrastructure will design, implement, optimize, and operate scalable distributed infrastructure across multiple cloud providers and deployment contexts, while improving resilience, deployment, monitoring, and developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement infrastructure systems that scale reliably and securely, and can be deployed across multiple cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI etc.) and contexts (SaaS, on prem)
- Tune and optimize cloud services across compute, storage, networking, and observability to drive performance, reliability and maintainability of core services
- Develop our core services, written in TypeScript, Kotlin and Go (and pick them up quickly if you haven’t used them before) to support our unique deployment and infrastructure requirements
- Support large-scale systems with event driven architectures
- Own problems end-to-end—from design through deployment to production support
- Navigate ambiguity and help define •how• we build as much as •what• we build
- Partner closely with other engineers, AI researchers and Security researchers to enable high-quality, high-velocity product development
- Design for resilience by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity strategies that ensure uptime, even when things break
- Improve how we build, deploy, and monitor services at scale
Skills
- • Strong experience building and operating scalable, distributed systems on cloud infrastructure such as AWS or similar
- • Extensive experience with Containerisation and Orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes)
- • Comfortable working with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CDK) and see infra as part of the engineering system—not something separate from it
- • Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues, or async workflows (for example, using Kafka)
- • A track record of performance tuning across cloud services, databases, and compute layers
- • Eager to learn new tools, languages, and technologies as needed
- • A thoughtful communicator who values clarity and simplicity and is comfortable working in a fast-paced startup and navigating ambiguity
- • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work with incomplete information
- • Curious, practical, and eager to work across layers of the stack when needed
- • You think proactively about failure modes and bring experience implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans that keep critical systems running
- • Experience with deploying infrastructure to multiple environments (SaaS, on-prem) and know how to build resilient systems that handle the complexity of such environments
- • Familiarity with modern observability practices (logs, metrics, tracing) and how to apply them
- • Experience working in an early stage startup
- • Prior experience building developer tooling or security products
- • Hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch at scale
- • Previous experience building platform teams or working on internal developer platforms
Benefits
- A generous equity package, making you a true owner of the company.
- Shape your role, lead the function, and grow with the company as we redefine cybersecurity.
- Remote work in the US or EMEA, with support to travel to collaborate with colleagues in person.
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