Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure & Kubernetes Scope and lead large, often ambiguous technical projects, laying the groundwork for early-stage products to iteratively evolve and scaleOwn and operate our Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, managed via the Porter orchestratorApply and enforce Kubernetes best practices: resource management, health checks, autoscaling, pod disruption budgets, and graceful rollout strategiesTune deployments and cluster configuration for zero-downtime releases and high availabilityDesign and improve CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable, and safe deliveryContribute to observability, alerting, and incident response practices across the platformMust-Have 8-12 years deep expertise in Kubernetes — production operations, best practices, and performance tuning for zero-downtime architecturesStrong CI/CD experience — designing, building, and maintaining pipelines at scaleDemonstrated hunger to learn modern data engineering — lakehouse architectures, Iceberg, CDC, transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt or coalesce.io or others)Strong SQL skills and the ability to optimize queries for performance and costExcellent cross-functional collaboration skills — comfortable working directly with BizOps and other non-engineering stakeholdersOwnership mindset — able to take systems from design through operation end to endNice-to-Have Cross-region architecture experience (multi-region failover, DR, data replication)Cross-tenant / multi-tenant architecture expertiseExperience with Apache Iceberg, AWS Glue, or other lakehouse catalogsExperience with EKS, Porter, or similar Kubernetes management platformsFamiliarity with modern data stack tooling: dbt, Snowflake, CDC tools (Debezium, Estuary, etc.)Experience in fintech or other regulated environments (PCI DSS, SOC 2)Why You Should Join Shape a greenfield data platform built on modern lakehouse foundationsReal ownership across infrastructure and data — small team, high impactWork at the intersection of platform engineering and data engineering, two of the fastest-growing disciplines in the industry