Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Job at Taskrabbit (New York)

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Taskrabbit

Location:
United States , New York ▼
San Francisco

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

147000.00 - 196000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Taskrabbit is looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to drive the next phase of our Platform Modernization ("PlatMod") initiative. In this high-impact role, you won't just keep the lights on; you will build the next generation of infrastructure from scratch to support both Taskrabbit and Dolly. We are moving fast to decommission legacy tooling (i.e Jenkins) in favor of a modern, cloud-native stack (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane). You will be a hands-on owner—taking vague requirements and turning them into resilient, scalable solutions while advocating for your technical designs to the wider engineering organization. As a core member of a lean, collaborative team, you will also play a critical role in stabilizing our environment. You will participate in the on-call rotation, drive incident response, and implement the fixes necessary to ensure our services remain highly available (99.9%) for our users worldwide.

Job Responsibility:

Build and maintain new modern infrastructure such as Kubernetes, new CI/CD tools and assisting with application teams on adapting
Building and maintaining CI / CD pipelines from scratch for testing and releasing configuration and software
Monitor and resolve issues in all environments using tools such as DataDog, PagerDuty, and AWS logs
Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting, anticipating performance bottlenecks, and scaling the environment as needed using DataDog and other tools
Design and implement a zero-downtime solution to accomplish a highly available service (99.9%)
Ensure systems are secure against cyber threats and implement fixes for Security vulnerabilities
Automate tasks and develop tools to increase engineering efficiency and visibility
Design and implement disaster recovery (DR) between different regions in cloud providers such as AWS
Manage web domain and certificates
Troubleshoot production and testing environment issues, including performance and function issues
Provide support to the organization through on-call, resolving issues and driving infrastructure changes
Identify, define, and document system requirements and recommend solutions to management
Perform on-call duties and be part of the on-call rotations (weekends/evenings
as needed)

Requirements:

At least 5+ years of experience in the Infrastructure and DevOps Space
Experience with build automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef.)
Strong knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ecosystem and other core AWS technologies, ElasticSearch Service, RDS, WAF, CloudFront, Kubernetes etc.
You have worked with common infrastructure tools like Docker, Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD
Experience with a microservice architecture running in containers (Docker or other containerisation technology)
Experience supporting 24x7, high-availability internet application environments that include web, application, and database servers and load balancing systems
Experience working with a product that has end-users
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
Excellent written and communication skills
A strong ownership attitude and a track record of taking responsibility for problems and pushing through to resolution

Nice to have:

AWS Certification is a plus
Software development background is a plus
Experience in a startup environment is a plus

What we offer:

employer-paid health insurance
401k match with immediate vesting
generous and flexible time off with 2 company-wide closure weeks
Taskrabbit product stipends
wellness + productivity + education stipends
IKEA discounts
reproductive health support

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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