Platform Infrastructure Engineer
CoinDesk is a media, events, indices, and data company serving the global crypto economy.
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About CoinDesk
CoinDesk operates a cryptocurrency newsroom covering markets, policy, technology, and digital assets. It also provides institutional digital-asset market data through CoinDesk Data and benchmark indices and reference rates through CoinDesk Indices.
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About the Role
You will build, operate, and scale cloud infrastructure for a high-performance trading exchange. You will create modular infrastructure-as-code, maintain Kubernetes environments, improve CI/CD workflows and developer self-service, respond to incidents, optimize cloud resources, and collaborate on secure, reliable cloud architecture.
Requirements
- Expertise designing and managing cloud environments, including compute, storage, networking, and security.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker in production or staging environments.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Understanding of CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or ArgoCD.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and deploy modular Terraform code to provision cloud environments.
- Maintain and optimize Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.
- Apply LLM-based coding assistants to infrastructure provisioning and debugging.
- Manage and improve the AI platform used by teams.
- Streamline CI/CD pipelines and accelerate production deployments.
- Participate in incident response, investigate root causes, and implement long-term fixes.
- Optimize cloud cost, performance, scalability, and security.
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams on cloud architecture.
- Build and enhance the Backstage internal developer portal.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual target bonus
- Performance incentives