Hiring: Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure Company: HUD Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 01:55:57 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Docker, EC2, EKS, Helm, IAM, Kubernetes, S3, Terraform About the job Experience: •Have owned production cloud infrastructure for a high-availability, user-facing platform, with responsibility for uptime, performance, deployment safety, and cost •Have deep experience with AWS infrastructure and containerized systems; experience with tools like Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, load balancers, networking, and secrets management is strongly preferred •Have built or operated CI/CD, environment management, release automation, observability, alerting, and incident response systems •Have strong backend engineering judgment and can reason about service architecture, APIs, databases, async systems, queues, scaling limits, and production failure modes •Can write clean, maintainable code and apply strong software engineering judgment across product architecture, infrastructure, backend systems, and developer workflows Required Skills: •We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems. •This is not a pure infrastructure role. •Own production uptime, latency, provisioning speed, infrastructure cost, and incident response for core platform services •Build and maintain AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, Helm, Docker, EC2, CodeBuild, ECR, S3, IAM, networking, and secrets management •Design and improve backend and platform systems for scale, including capacity planning, autoscaling, queueing, backpressure, cleanup jobs, retries, and rollback paths •Define and improve dashboards, alerts, logs, traces, SLOs, runbooks, and on-call workflows so failures are detected, debugged, and resolved quickly •Build reliable CI/CD, release automation, environment management, and deployment workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce production risk •Write clean, maintainable code where needed to automate systems, improve backend services, and create internal tooling Compensation: •$140,000 - $250,000 / year •100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!