Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

BUILD THE INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM POWERING DURABLE EXECUTION

The next generation of applications will be long-running, integration-heavy, and increasingly autonomous.

As systems become more agentic and failure-prone, durable execution transforms reliability from an application concern into a platform capability.

Restate sits at the center of that shift.

Restate (restate.dev http://restate.dev) turns AI agents, workflows, and backend services into durable processes, allowing developers to focus on business logic rather than retries, state recovery, and failure handling.

We're looking for a Senior to Staff-level Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the infrastructure platform that powers Restate across open source, self-hosted deployments, multi-tenant SaaS, and Bring Your Own Cloud environments.

This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and platform engineering.

What You'll OWN

• The infrastructure and control plane powering Restate Cloud.

• The systems enabling BYOC and self-hosted deployments.

• Reliability, observability, and operational excellence across the fleet.

• Automation and tooling that allow the platform to scale efficiently.

• Production operations and participation in the cloud on-call rotation.

• You will operate across networking, storage, Kubernetes, cloud APIs, observability, and infrastructure automation while owning systems end-to-end from design through production.

• WHY THIS ROLE IS INTERESTING

• DURABLE EXECUTION IS BECOMING FOUNDATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

• As AI systems become increasingly long-running and stateful, durable runtimes are emerging as a core infrastructure primitive.

• You'll help build the platform enabling that transition.

• BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES

• Restate reimagines durable execution as a lightweight, self-contained runtime:

• Single Rust binary deployment

• Custom storage layer

• Low-latency orchestration engine

• Integrated observability

• No external database dependency

• WORK ON SYSTEMS WHERE RELIABILITY MATTERS

• Restate powers workloads running inside Fortune 500 enterprises, financial institutions, and AI-native startups building production-grade agents and workflows.

• The systems you build operate in environments where correctness and operational simplicity are mission critical.

• WORK WITH EXCEPTIONAL ENGINEERS

• You'll work directly with engineers who built foundational distributed systems at global scale, including creators of Apache Flink and leaders from Meta's messaging infrastructure teams.

What We're Looking FOR

• MUST HAVE

• Experience operating large-scale SaaS or platform infrastructure in production.

• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based systems.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation.

• Strong software engineering skills in Rust, Go, or C++.

• Comfort owning systems from design through operations.

• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and operate with significant autonomy.

• NICE TO HAVE

• Kubernetes operator development.

• Cluster API, Crossplane, or Terraform experience.

• Experience with multi-tenant control planes.

• Experience operating infrastructure in enterprise or compliance-sensitive environments.

• Familiarity with durable execution systems or workflow runtimes.

• THIS ROLE MAY NOT BE A FIT IF

• You prefer working on runtime internals rather than cloud infrastructure.

• You prefer architecture and review work over hands-on ownership.

• You are uncomfortable operating production infrastructure or participating in on-call rotations.

• LOCATION

• Fully remote within the United States.

• East Coast candidates are preferred to improve on-call coverage.

• Minimal travel requirements.