Depot is a build acceleration and developer productivity platform that saves companies like PostHog, Wistia, Semgrep, and Secoda thousands of hours in build time every week.

We are developers. We started Depot because we were frustrated with the constant pain of slow build performance. We were fed up waiting for builds and annoyed by the lack of tooling and providers that actually made builds performant. So, we went and built the solution we had always wanted.

Slow builds are the dam standing in the way between mediocrity and innovation. They’re wasteful, expensive, and a drain on developer happiness & productivity. They slow down innovation.

Taking a 40-minute build down to a minute, changes everything. We help folks save literal years in build time every single week.

And we’re just getting started. For us, it’s all about iteration speed and keeping developers in their flow state. Our mission is to be relentless in accelerating software development.

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

At Depot, we are on a mission to redefine software collaboration and accelerate developers everywhere. We are creating a build performance and developer platform unlike any other, combining performance, empathy, and centralized collaboration to enable companies to iterate exponentially faster.

We launch millions of EC2 instances per month and orchestrate half a petabyte of cache data to accelerate CI jobs and local builds. We are looking to hire a Staff Infrastructure Engineer who can build for the next level of scale.

For this role, you should be a seasoned expert with robust systems engineering skills and the ability to engage deeply in technical discussions. As part of a small team, you will work side-by-side with other engineers to test ideas, build proofs of concept, and ultimately ship quality solutions to customers. You will be a key contributor with the ownership and autonomy to see projects through from beginning to end.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America and Europe for this role.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Maintain and evolve the AWS infrastructure, ECS clusters, and networking layer using Terraform.
• Systems Engineering: Dive deep into low-level systems including compute isolation (Firecracker/microVMs), storage optimization (Ceph, LVM), and performance debugging across the stack.
• Automation & Tooling: Automate critical workflows such as AMI updates, machine binary deployments, and internal tooling to improve developer velocity.
• Observability: Implement and refine tracing, monitoring, and SLAs for core services like BuildKit builds, Depot Cache, and the registry.
• Backend Development: Write and maintain Go services responsible for infrastructure provisioning, orchestration, and management.
• Reliability: Participate in the on-call rotation, leading incident response, and supporting deep technical debugging of production issues.

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency with AWS, Go, and Terraform.
• Experience with or a desire to learn the technologies that power Depot, including Firecracker/microVMs, Ceph, LVM, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), ClickHouse, and Vitess.
• Strong debugging skills in distributed systems, networking, and storage, with experience in high-scale production environments.
• A self-starter who is excited about hard challenges and comfortable working in an environment with ambiguity.
• The ability to take complex problems and feedback, then distill them down to clear and focused solutions.
• Capable of asking questions, experimenting, and advocating for what is right.
• A strong desire for ownership, with the ability to define goals and execute on them from idea to measurement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and comfort collaborating asynchronously across time zones.

Depot values and culture

Depot is a fully remote and globally distributed team across the US, Europe, and Canada. As a remote startup, there are several key values and expectations:

• The team will only get more distributed as time goes on. As such, there is always stuff happening across Depot, so the ideal candidate thrives in that type of environment.
• Work is not family. You are expected to get things done and work hard to meet goals. But you should spend time with your family and friends, finding the balance that accomplishes both.
• As a small team, the goal is to accomplish massive things. Everyone at Depot is a self-starter, deeply passionate about the problems being solved, and driven to solve them well.
• Ownership is the key to growth. Part of that growth is making choices, and owning the success, failure, and lessons learned that come with those choices.
• Decisions are based on data and customer needs. Success comes from being data-driven in decision-making.

We are a team of experienced engineers who are constantly evaluating the best tools to help us in our goal of making builds near instant. Currently, we are heavy users of AWS as our core infrastructure provider, write a lot of Typescript and Go code, and have a mix of gRPC & REST APIs.

Accelerating container builds with an optimized version of BuildKit that we have been working on kinda makes using Go the default standard because of the broad ecosystem support.

Most of our orchestration, provisioning, and control plane logic is written in Typescript because it works well enough for what we need. We do have some Go that we are bringing online where latency is very sensitive, like our Depot Cache product.

We're constantly solving these kinds of problems:

1. How do we start an EC2 instance to pick up a GitHub Actions job in sub 5 seconds?
2. How do we add proper blob storage support to BuildKit?
3. How can we avoid relying on flakey GitHub webhooks to know when work is ready?
4. How can we make this build 2x fast in the next 24 hours?
5. What would a build look like if compute and networks weren't a constraint?