# Senior Platform Infrastructure Software Engineer at Alkira

- Company: Alkira
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and GV.
- Company website: https://www.alkira.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $85K to $155K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://alkira.bamboohr.com/careers/274
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alkira-senior-platform-infrastructure-software-engineer/

## About the role

Alkira is transforming networking through its Network Infrastructure as a Service (NIaaS) platform, enabling enterprises to build and operate global cloud networks with simplicity, scale, and agility. We are seeking a Senior Platform Infrastructure Software Engineer to own the foundational layer every other engineering team at Alkira depends on, including Platform Services.

## What they're looking for

- Own the global Kubernetes cluster footprint across regions and cloud providers: provisioning, upgrades, multi-tenancy, resource and network policy, and failure isolation
- Own the internal cluster running CI/CD runners and build platforms: capacity, isolation, scaling, and the build performance every team feels daily
- Own the shared infrastructure other teams consume - managed databases, object storage buckets, container registries, and build platforms including provisioning paths, access model, and cost
- Own the full lifecycle of shared platform services such as internal PKI, vaults, Kubernetes operators
- Own disaster recovery for the platform: backup and restore, replication and failover design, documented RTO and RPO targets, and regular DR exercises that prove recovery works
- Own the observability stack and set the standard other teams instrument against

Tags: Engineering - R&D