[Remote] Infrastructure Engineer (Platform / Reliability)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wander is revolutionizing the short-term rental industry and is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate their platform. This role involves ensuring reliable environments, predictable deployments, and resilient systems while collaborating closely with application engineers to enhance developer velocity. Responsibilities • Design, build, and operate GKE-based infrastructure for production and non-production environments • Own availability, resilience, and uptime for core platform services • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that are fast, reliable, and boring • Enable safe, repeatable deployments (progressive delivery, rollbacks, environment parity) • Support and evolve event-driven architectures (queues, streams, async workflows) • Implement strong monitoring, alerting, and observability so issues are found before customers do • Create one-click or near-zero-friction developer environments • Partner with application engineers to remove friction and improve developer velocity • Automate aggressively — manual steps are bugs • Document systems and decisions so the platform scales with the team Skills • Solid experience running production workloads on GKE (or equivalent Kubernetes environments) • Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: Failure modes, backpressure, retries, idempotency, Event delivery semantics and ordering • Experience building event-driven systems (pub/sub, queues, streams) • Proven track record improving: Uptime and reliability, Deployment safety, Mean time to recovery (MTTR) • Experience with: CI/CD and delivery pipelines, Infrastructure as code, Monitoring, logging, and alerting systems • A strong bias toward developer experience. If developers are slowed down, that's a platform bug • Comfort working asynchronously with minimal process overhead • Willingness to learn — we don't expect perfection, we expect progress Company Overview • Wander is a luxury rental company that provides smart home travel services. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Wander has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2023. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job