Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

At Gauntlet, the Infrastructure Engineer will play a crucial role in building and maintaining infrastructure for a leading asset manager in onchain finance. This position focuses on cloud-native solutions and aims to support application teams by managing infrastructure requests effectively.

The team is dedicated to delivering sophisticated financial products for institutional clients in both crypto and traditional finance. Success in this role will be defined by the ability to automate deployments, improve observability, and strengthen security measures, ultimately enhancing the overall infrastructure.

The salary range for this role is between $82,000 and $138,000, reflecting the level of expertise and experience required.

Skills that matter here

• Python: This role requires strong fundamentals in Python for scripting and development tasks.
• Kubernetes: Experience operating large-scale Kubernetes production systems is essential for managing service deployments.
• Terraform: The role involves authoring and updating Terraform modules for infrastructure as code.
• GitHub Actions: Familiarity with CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions is necessary for maintaining deployment workflows.
• GCP: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform is crucial for managing cloud infrastructure.
• Observability: The role includes consolidating observability tools to improve incident alerting and system monitoring.

Who this role suits

• A person with a strong background in software engineering and cloud infrastructure.
• Someone who is proactive and enjoys automating processes to improve efficiency.
• An effective communicator who can clearly articulate technical concepts and decisions.
• A candidate with a genuine interest in onchain finance and a desire to learn more about the web3 space.

From the employer

What you'll do;

• Support the application teams: turn around infra requests (permissions, roles, service setup, project peering) so product engineers stay focused on shipping.
• Own CI/CD and deployments: maintain and extend our GitHub Actions workflows and help migrate toward a dedicated CD tool with proper permissioning — the goal is fully automated, locked-down deploys via service accounts, no direct engineer access to production.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code: author and update Terraform modules for new and existing services across GCP environments.
• Run Kubernetes the right way: manage service deployments via Helm (we're on Helm 4) keep async workloads healthy on Dagster.
• Unify observability (likely first project): consolidate today's per-team alerting into a single view — system-to-system dashboards plus incident alerting that routes upstream service/vendor failures to the right impacted teams and on-call rotations.
• Advance resilience: help move us toward a fully region- and cloud-agnostic posture so services can pick up and move if something fails.
• Strengthen security & access: apply IAM, secrets management, least privilege, and auditability; contribute to SOC 2 readiness.
• Automate with AI: build agent skills / agents.md so routine tasks (provisioning access, simple changes) can be handled by an agent instead of human engineering hours, and use AI to reason through bigger problems.

What you bring;

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in at least one production language (Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust); Python especially valued, plus comfort scripting and working in the shell.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and core cloud services, especially GCP (AWS/Azure transferable).
• Experience operating large-scale Kubernetes production systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems, especially GitHub Actions or Octopus Deploy.
• Ability to debug production issues using logs, metrics, traces, shell tools, and source code.
• Security and access-control fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, least privilege, and auditability.
• Clear written communication around incidents, design decisions, and operational procedures.

Bonus points

• Supporting SOC 2 controls - evidence collection, access reviews, change management, or audit readiness.
• Observability with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, or similar.
• Improving developer experience through internal tooling, templates, scripts, or platform APIs.
• Incident response experience, including postmortems and follow-up remediation.
• Experience with Dagster, Helm 3+, high-scale CD tooling (Bazel, Octopus), or AI/agent-assisted ops.
• Basic web3 / DeFi literacy (transactions, wallets) and genuine curiosity about onchain — the role doesn't touch chain directly, but the business is onchain.