Buffer

2 days ago

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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Last checked: 17 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Own reliability and modernization of a distributed production platform that powers every Buffer engineer’s releases and supports millions of creators. Improve CI/CD and progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts, evolve developer tooling and per-PR build environments, and reduce operational toil using AI. Drive platform lifecycle upgrades across AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform-managed infrastructure while improving observability and platform economics with Datadog and AWS rightsizing.

Location: Anywhere

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Own day-to-day reliability of the production platform, keeping EKS, ArgoCD, and AWS components reliable and tuning autoscaling; participate in distributed on-call.
•Implement progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and safe rollback paths, making deployments trustworthy for engineering teams.
•Build developer tools as products by evolving the local development environment (BIBEs) and CLI tooling; measure adoption and iterate with users.
•Reduce operational toil using AI to automate low-risk workflows end-to-end, speeding up humans rather than changing infrastructure directly.
•Keep the stack current by driving lifecycle upgrades (Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, Terraform surface area) and owning infra-side security vulnerabilities.

Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 164,595 - 212,744 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•Have senior experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, “DevOps” engineer, or adjacent role.
•Operate production Kubernetes at scale on a managed offering (GKE, EKS, AKS), including maintaining Helm charts and autoscaling primitives (KEDA and cluster autoscaler).
•Have AWS depth across IAM, EC2, S3, SQS, ECR, and ALBs; experience with Cloudflare (WAF, Workers) and GCP (BigQuery) is a plus.
•Strong Terraform skills, defaulting to modules and keeping code adaptable, readable, and self-contained.
•Run production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (or equivalent) and GitOps via ArgoCD, including authoring pipelines and Helm configuration for safe canary/progressive delivery rollbacks.

Experience:SaaSDistributed systemsSocial media

Skills:ProactiveFollow-throughTurning ambiguity into proofs of conceptThriving in remote/asynchronous workSystems thinking

Tech Stack:AWSGCPCloudflareEC2EKSS3SQSSNSECRIAMALBBigQueryKubernetesHelmKEDAArgoCDArgo RolloutsGitHub ActionsTerraformDatadog

Company Brief

Buffer

Buffer provides a social media management platform to schedule, publish, and analyze posts across multiple social networks, serving individual creators and businesses with publishing, analytics, and team collaboration tools.

Industry: Enterprise Software

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Revenue: USD 10M to 25M

Growth: Established Company

Funding: Series A

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2010

Glassdoor: 3.8

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Buffer

2 days ago

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 17 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Location: Anywhere

Workplace: Remote

Employment Type: Full time

Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure

Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

•Own day-to-day reliability of the production platform, keeping EKS, ArgoCD, and AWS components reliable and tuning autoscaling; participate in distributed on-call.
•Implement progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts and safe rollback paths, making deployments trustworthy for engineering teams.
•Build developer tools as products by evolving the local development environment (BIBEs) and CLI tooling; measure adoption and iterate with users.
•Reduce operational toil using AI to automate low-risk workflows end-to-end, speeding up humans rather than changing infrastructure directly.
•Keep the stack current by driving lifecycle upgrades (Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm, Terraform surface area) and owning infra-side security vulnerabilities.

Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 164,595 - 212,744 annually

Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

•Have senior experience as an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, “DevOps” engineer, or adjacent role.
•Operate production Kubernetes at scale on a managed offering (GKE, EKS, AKS), including maintaining Helm charts and autoscaling primitives (KEDA and cluster autoscaler).
•Have AWS depth across IAM, EC2, S3, SQS, ECR, and ALBs; experience with Cloudflare (WAF, Workers) and GCP (BigQuery) is a plus.
•Strong Terraform skills, defaulting to modules and keeping code adaptable, readable, and self-contained.
•Run production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (or equivalent) and GitOps via ArgoCD, including authoring pipelines and Helm configuration for safe canary/progressive delivery rollbacks.

Experience:SaaSDistributed systemsSocial media

Skills:ProactiveFollow-throughTurning ambiguity into proofs of conceptThriving in remote/asynchronous workSystems thinking

Tech Stack:AWSGCPCloudflareEC2EKSS3SQSSNSECRIAMALBBigQueryKubernetesHelmKEDAArgoCDArgo RolloutsGitHub ActionsTerraformDatadog

Company Brief

Buffer

Industry: Enterprise Software

Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)

Revenue: USD 10M to 25M

Growth: Established Company

Funding: Series A

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States

Founded: 2010

Glassdoor: 3.8

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor