Remote Senior Infrastructure Engineer / SRE

Description:

• Dune is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / SRE to join their remote team across the East Coast US and Europe.
• The role involves collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to ensure infrastructure meets performance, reliability, and scalability needs.
• Responsibilities include developing and maintaining robust infrastructure and scalable services, designing reliable containerized environments, and analyzing system performance to identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• The position focuses on maintaining high system reliability and scalability while addressing unique technical challenges.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have proven expertise in managing and optimizing bare-metal infrastructure and containerized environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and orchestration tools is required.
• A strong understanding of system performance, debugging, and optimization across diverse environments is essential.
• The ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly is necessary.
• A solid foundation in computer science fundamentals and system design is required.
• Candidates should be able to work collaboratively in a remote setting, contributing to a positive and inclusive team culture.
• Desired qualifications include 5+ years of experience as a systems or infrastructure engineer, experience with distributed systems, and hands-on experience with Nomad or Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible and Terraform, scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash, and experience with monitoring and observability tools is preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud cost management and performance improvement strategies, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and experience working across multiple time zones are also desired.

Benefits:

• The position offers a competitive salary and equity package, with both being in the top 25% of companies in the space.
• Employees benefit from a world-class equity scheme with a heavily discounted strike price and a 10-year exercise window.
• The company provides 5 weeks of PTO plus local public holidays, which can be swapped to suit individual needs.
• A fully remote-first approach with flexible working hours allows employees to structure their own day.
• Dune promotes a healthy mix of asynchronous and synchronous work to minimize meeting overload.
• Good health is prioritized with private medical insurance, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid parental leave is offered, with 16 weeks for primary caregivers and 6 weeks for secondary caregivers, fully paid, along with a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay.
• Quarterly offsites in exciting locations and a yearly travel allowance for co-working with team members are provided.
• An allowance for at-home setup ensures a comfortable and productive work environment, with options for local co-working space coverage.
• Employees have the opportunity to work with some of the best people in the industry and receive Dune swag.