Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Contentful operates highly scalable high throughput cloud infrastructure that enables our products to deliver reliable value to our customers. We’re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (f/m/d) who cares deeply about building and operating robust, secure, and scalable infrastructure. You’ll help shape the backbone that supports hundreds of billions of requests per month, working in an engaging environment and tackling various challenges. This is not just about maintaining systems - it’s about improving them thoughtfully. You’ll work in a team that values short, fast iterations while always keeping long-term strategy in mind. We are focused on solving real problems and delivering value to both internal and external customers. You’ll join a team of thoughtful, collaborative engineers who support each other, share knowledge freely, and work closely with product teams. If you’re someone who thrives on responsibility, takes pride in enabling high performance infrastructure - this might be the right place for you.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure in high-availability environments.
• AWS Knowledge: Strong AWS knowledge across core services: VPC, ALB, EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, Route53, RDS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, etc.
• Terraform Expertise: Terraform expertise for infrastructure provisioning.
• Kubernetes Experience: Practical experience with Kubernetes (ideally EKS), including workload tuning, autoscaling, and troubleshooting under load.
• Programming Proficiency: Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Go preferred).
• Networking Knowledge: Understanding of networking concepts: routing, DNS, load balancing.
• CDN/Edge Familiarity: Familiarity with CDN/Edge (e.g., Fastly) and how they interact with backend systems.
• Debugging Skills: Comfortable debugging distributed systems issues across Edge, Network, Compute, and Storage layers.
• Observability Experience: Experience with observability stacks (metrics, logs, tracing) and tools like Splunk and New Relic.
• SRE Practices: Familiarity with SRE practices: SLO, SLA, etc.
• Communication Skills: Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure that must be highly available, secure, and scalable - serving billions of monthly requests.
• Work with AWS using Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code best practices.
• Deploy and optimize Kubernetes clusters and help ensure that workloads scale and recover gracefully.
• Collaborate across domains and teams to enable infrastructure improvements.
• Work to improve observability at scale.
• Help us stay ahead of operational risks - anticipating bottlenecks or failure points before they cause problems.
• Be involved in incident response, postmortems.

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