Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Stream
Netherlands
Posted
on-site · full_time · Visa sponsorship
Responsibilities:
- Define platform standards and SLOs: set latency, uptime and health metrics and decide what to measure for each product team.
- Lead infrastructure design and trade-off decisions across hosting, data layer and service boundaries.
- Build internal platform tooling, services and documentation that speed deployment, debugging and onboarding.
- Own production reliability: run and improve on-call, manage incidents, perform RCA and reduce alert noise.
- Drive cost visibility and optimisation: make hosting and architecture decisions that lower spend and improve margins.
Requirements:
- Proven experience building and owning high-scale production systems with strong system design judgement.
- Proficiency in Go or Python and familiarity with Kubernetes, databases (Postgres/Redis) and cloud providers (AWS/GCP).
- Strong fundamentals in networking, storage, concurrency and observability tooling and practices.
- Comfortable making trade-offs across reliability, latency and cost; able to lead cross-team technical decisions.
- Good communication, documentation skills and a pragmatic approach to using AI/automation to accelerate engineering work.