Rally
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SeniorInfrastructureEngineer
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“Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rally. Skills: Cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, Developer experience, IaC maturity. Own CI/CD platform. Define DORA metrics”
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years infrastructure experience, 5+ years platform engineering experience, 5+ years SRE experience, Deep AWS experience, Production Terraform experience, CI/CD platform experience, Observability fundamentals
Nice to Have
Early/founding platform team experience, Node.js familiarity, TypeScript familiarity, Prisma familiarity, GraphQL familiarity, Kafka operations, Event streaming operations, Temporal operations, Workflow orchestration operations, Deploying Ephemeral/preview environments, FinOps practices, Cost tooling, Edge/CDN deployment
What You'll Do.
Build on-demand preview environments
Improve inner-loop workflows
Improve local tooling
Improve service scaffolding
Implement drift detection
Implement CI for infra
Own cost optimization
Provide per-team cost visibility
Maintain Datadog observability stack
Evolve Datadog observability stack
Build automation tools
Reduce operational toil
Accelerate incident recovery
Drive post-incident reviews
Translate findings into improvements
Perform container scanning
Enforce IAM least-privilege
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Platform Engineers; Product Engineers; UX Researchers; Research Ops leaders; Designers; Product managers; Founding engineer; Leadership
Full Job Description
Role at a glance What: As Rally's founding Platform / Infrastructure Engineer, you'll take full ownership of our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and developer experience — building the foundation that lets our engineering team move fast, ship reliably, and scale into an AI-native future. Impact: You'll be the dedicated owner of Rally's CI/CD platform, Terraform infrastructure, preview environments, and agentic platform foundations — building from the ground up and setting the standard for how we scale. Team: You'll join our Engineering team as the founding member of a dedicated infrastructure function, reporting directly to a founding engineer Melvin, and working closely with leadership. You'll work closely with Platform and Product Engineers across the stack. Work style: Remote-first and able to work within the US timezones, with regular async collaboration and optional in-person team onsites. About Rally Rally is the User Research CRM that helps product, design, and research teams talk to their users quickly, safely, and at scale. Our platform automates the unglamorous parts of research—participant recruitment, outreach, screening, scheduling, consent, and incentives—so teams can spend more time learning from customers and less time wrestling with manual workflows. We're now building Rally's next chapter: an AI-native platform that handles the full research recruiting lifecycle, end to end. Trusted by teams at Google, Adobe, Figma, GitLab, Webflow, and others. Backed by Y Combinator, Stage 2 Capital, and Canapi Ventures. About the team Rally Engineering is a highly collaborative, user-obsessed group focused on making research smoother for both our customers and their participants. - We work closely with UX Researchers, Research Ops leaders, designers, and product managers at some of the world's most user-centric companies. - We use Rally to build Rally — talking to our own users frequently, running studies on our platform, and feeding insights straight i
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