Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Stream

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About the role

Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate infrastructure for high-scale real-time systems handling millions of connections and billions of requests.
- Lead Kubernetes work end-to-end: cluster architecture, workload design and migration of services to Kubernetes.
- Drive the AWS-to-GCP migration and re-architect workloads for cost and performance improvements.
- Migrate and operate Postgres shards to self-hosted infrastructure and optimise database performance and reliability.
- Write production Go/Python code and platform automation to improve deployment, observability and operations.
- Own cost and efficiency optimisation, on-call rotations, incident response and post-incident root cause fixes.

Requirements:
- 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, SRE or DevOps with production coding experience in Go or Python.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience at production scale (architecture, migrations, workload design).
- Proven experience running high-load, real-time production systems and optimising cloud spend (AWS/GCP).
- Strong cloud fundamentals (networking, compute, storage, IAM) and observability practices.
- Comfortable owning migrations, capacity planning and translating architectural decisions into measurable outcomes.
- Collaborative mindset for working with backend, video and moderation teams on cross-service trade-offs.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate high-scale infrastructure for real-time systems while driving Kubernetes migrations and cloud architecture transitions. You will also own cost optimization, write production-grade code, and participate in on-call incident response.

Requirements

Requires 5+ years of experience in infrastructure or SRE roles with a strong software engineering background and production coding skills in Go or Python. Candidates must have demonstrated experience with Kubernetes at scale and cloud infrastructure optimization.

Key skills

• Infrastructure engineering — in 6 other listings on The Stack
• Kubernetes — in 569 other listings on The Stack
• AWS — in 788 other listings on The Stack
• GCP — in 168 other listings on The Stack
• Go — in 226 other listings on The Stack
• Python — in 1173 other listings on The Stack
• PostgreSQL — in 290 other listings on The Stack
• Cloud architecture — in 80 other listings on The Stack
• System design
• Reliability engineering
• Cost optimization
• Networking
• Compute
• Storage
• IAM
• Incident response

On The Stack (as of 2026-11-03)

• Stream has 5 other listings on The Stack, 4 of them marked as offering visa sponsorship.
• 64 visa-sponsored jobs in the Netherlands on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.
• 56 visa-sponsored platform engineer jobs in Europe on The Stack, posted in the last 60 days.

Frequently asked questions about Stream

Is this Senior Infrastructure Engineer role still open?

It was posted on 2026-08-21. Listings more than 30 days old may no longer be active, so check Stream's site before applying.

Does Stream offer visa sponsorship?

This listing is marked as offering visa sponsorship. Eligibility rules are set by the employer, so check the details on Stream's site.

Where is this role located?

The listing gives the location as Netherlands. It is marked on-site.

What skills does this role ask for?

The listing names: Infrastructure engineering, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Cloud architecture, System design, Reliability engineering, Cost optimization, Networking, Compute, Storage, IAM, Incident response.