Infra Engineer

Description:

The Giger team builds and maintains one of Deel’s most powerful internal platforms: a sandbox system that enables engineers to develop, test, and deploy faster than ever. Giger allows product teams to spin up fully functional, production-like environments in minutes, complete with real databases, services, queues, and storage. Each sandbox is completely isolated, empowering teams to experiment freely, test infrastructure changes, and validate code safely at scale.

Who We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering
• Strong BE engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats
• Node.js/Go/Python background
• Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure
• Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities
• Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools:
  • networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LBC, oauth2-proxy)
  • secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
  • cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
  • storage provisioning
• Experience with Helm charts and GitOps
• Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods
• Excellent system design and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams
• Hands-on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments