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Infrastructure Engineer

Formal

Responsibilities

  • Own Kubernetes and operate reliable clusters, networking, access controls, and data services.
  • Scale log ingestion and search; improve throughput, indexing lag, API latency, and storage costs.
  • Build repeatable on-prem installations and upgrades, including configuration, data migrations, and rollback.
  • Establish useful alerts and reliability targets; lead incident response and eliminate recurring failures.
  • Automate provisioning with Terraform and Helm; improve CI/CD, capacity planning, backups, and recovery.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating production cloud infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud using Terraform.
  • Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters, including deployments, ingress, autoscaling, and upgrades.
  • Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, and load balancing.
  • Experience with CI/CD, observability, and operating data pipelines or distributed APIs in production.
  • A track record of automating operational work and owning services through incidents and upgrades.

Preferred

  • Experience deploying and supporting on-prem software across customer networks and infrastructure.
  • Experience with search systems, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or Temporal.
  • Experience with Helm, Bazel, self-hosted CI runners, or environments for AI coding agents.

About the role

Formal secures billions of requests daily. Join a small team tackling the infrastructure behind that scale: log ingestion, fast search and APIs, and reliable cloud and on-prem deployments. You'll help own and make the platform easier to deploy, operate, and upgrade in our cloud and customer environments.

What you need

Experience with Go, Python, Rust, or another relevant programming language.

Compensation

  • This role offers cash compensation and a stock options grant.
  • The positioning of offers within a certain range depends on various factors, including: candidate experience, qualifications, skills, business requirements and geographical location.

Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)

  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
  • Partially covered for your dependents
  • Flexible PTO