Software engineer, cloud infrastructure
Join Watershed as a Software Engineer to build and operate reliable cloud infrastructure for a mission-oriented startup.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure
- Contribute to technical planning and design reviews
- Collaborate with product engineers to understand their needs
- Strengthen cloud security in partnership with Security and Compliance
- Participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation
Must have
- 2–5 years of software and/or infrastructure engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with a major cloud provider
Nice to have
- Experience with GCP
Practical constraints
- Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week
AI in the day-to-day
Strengthen Watershed’s AI infrastructure as our AI product suite grows.
Requirements
- Experience
- 2–5 years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the software engineer will design and maintain the cloud infrastructure that underpins Watershed's sustainability platform, focusing on reliability and efficiency. Key skills include experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud security, along with a solid understanding of CI/CD and networking. This position is ideal for engineers with 2-5 years of experience who thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to support product teams with robust infrastructure solutions. The team emphasizes operational excellence and is currently enhancing its AI capabilities.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 17, 2026. Last confirmed on Watershed's careers page October 17, 2026.
- Kubernetes appears in 59% of 117 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States; Networking appears in 1.7% of 117 comparable mid devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Software engineer, cloud infrastructure role remote?
- It's hybrid — Watershed expects some on-site time in San Francisco, United States.
- How much experience is required?
- 2–5 years of relevant experience for this Software engineer, cloud infrastructure role.
- Where is the role based?
- Watershed is hiring for this position in San Francisco, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CI/CD, Kubernetes, Networking, Observability, Terraform, cloud security.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Watershed targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software engineer, cloud infrastructure role at Watershed.
From the original posting
The role
Watershed’s Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational systems that power our product and help every engineer ship safely and efficiently. We own core compute, databases, networking, deployments, and observability, with a focus on production reliability, predictable infrastructure costs, security, and a low-toil developer experience.
Our work spans both operational excellence and high-leverage platform improvements. Current areas of investment include: upgrading our networking architecture, improving the usability of test environments and deployment systems, evolving our observability toolkit, hardening Watershed’s AI infrastructure as our AI product suite grows, and supporting agentic engineering workflows.
You will
Design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure that powers all of Watershed (across compute, databases, networking, deployment systems, and observability)
Contribute to technical planning, design reviews, team processes, and a culture of thoughtful, high-impact development
Collaborate with product engineers (our internal customers) to understand their needs and provide high-leverage infrastructure primitives that help them move faster, safely
Strengthen Watershed’s cloud security in partnership with our Security and Compliance functions, and drive infrastructure cost efficiency in collaboration with our Finance team
Participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation and help turn operational lessons into lasting improvements
You might be a good fit if
You have 2–5 years of software and/or infrastructure engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
You have hands-on experience in some of these areas: Kubernetes, Terraform / infrastructure as code, CI/CD, networking, relational databases, observability, reliability, or cloud security. Experience with a major cloud provider is a must; experience with GCP is helpful, but not required
You enjoy the challenge of building the appropriate level of tooling for the stage and arc of the company, in particular being on the front lines of supporting AI infrastructure and agentic products
You enjoy building enabling systems that help other engineers deliver excellent customer outcomes
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