Infrastructure & Backend Engineer

Own and evolve the reliability, visibility, and operational correctness of our platform spanning cloud services and physical hardware.

About the Role

We're looking for an Infrastructure & Observability Engineer to own and evolve the reliability, visibility, and operational correctness of our platform. This role is primarily focused on infrastructure, monitoring, logging, alerting, and production operations, with some backend involvement where necessary. Our systems span cloud services and physical hardware deployed in the field. You'll be responsible for making sure we can see what's happening across that entire stack, detect issues early, and operate the platform with confidence as it scales. This is a high-agency role with significant responsibility over production systems.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve our infrastructure on AWS, with services deployed via Kubernetes
• Design and maintain observability systems: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting
• Improve reliability, uptime, and debuggability of production systems
• Build tooling and automation to support deployments, rollbacks, and incident response
• Work closely with backend engineers to ensure services are observable and operable by default
• Support and debug real-time systems, including WebSocket-based device-to-cloud communication
• Occasionally contribute to backend services (TypeScript or Rust) when required to improve operability
• Reason about failures that span cloud infrastructure, networking, backend services, and deployed hardware

We're Hoping You

• Have strong experience operating production infrastructure and distributed systems
• Are comfortable with AWS, containers, and Kubernetes
• Have hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (OpenTelemetry)
• Understand networking concepts and long-lived connections (e.g. WebSockets)
• Can work methodically during incidents and improve systems post-mortem
• Are comfortable working close to hardware-backed systems, even if your background is primarily cloud-focused

Nice to Have

• Experience with Rust or other systems languages
• Exposure to embedded Linux, Yocto, or device-level software
• Experience operating device fleets or IoT-style platforms
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL performance and operational tuning
• Light frontend or internal tooling experience

Why Join Induct

• High-agency role with significant responsibility over production systems
• Work across the full stack from cloud to physical hardware
• Be part of a talented engineering team that values reliability and quality