Staff Infrastructure Engineer

ByteSearch has partnered with a fast growing, engineering led tech company looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to act as a force multiplier for the entire organisation. Joining a small, high leverage team, you will take end to end ownership of the core developer experience, from build speeds and CI reliability to environment automation.

There is no rigid roadmap handed down from above here. You’ll have the autonomy to identify the biggest bottlenecks slowing down shipping velocity, design the architecture to fix them, and write the code to make it happen.

What the day to day looks like:

• Hunting down bottlenecks: Profiling a build that takes twice as long as it should and cutting the feedback loop in half.
• Eliminating flakiness: Tracking down a race condition or test that only fails in CI and hardening the pipeline for good.
• Automating the friction away: Re-architecting how new environments are spun up so engineers spend their time shipping product, not fighting tooling.
• Setting the technical direction: Deciding what gets tackled first, driving buy-in, and staying deeply hands-on from initial design through to production rollout.

What we’re looking for:

You’ve likely operated in Platform, Infrastructure, SRE, Production Engineering, or Build & Release (typically with 8–10+ years of experience). More importantly, you’re a Staff-level engineer who still loves writing code, digging into low-level debugging, and building systems that other engineers actually enjoy using.

We’d love to talk if you have:

• Built critical infrastructure from scratch and owned it in production once the rest of the company depended on it.
• A track record of making builds, test suites, or release pipelines dramatically faster and more reliable.
• Written internal CLI tools, workflows, or automation that became indispensable to your team.
• Taken complex infrastructure projects from a blank page through to rollout and day-to-day operation.