ZeroTier’s leads the world in next-generation connectivity and cybersecurity. Our platform provides highly secure, peer-to-peer virtual networks, relied upon by millions of users and businesses – from individual users and startups to mid-scale enterprises and Fortune 500 companies. We’re backed by awesome investors including Battery Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, and Anorak Ventures.
The Role
We’re looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to help lead the design, reliability, and scalability of our cloud systems and internal platforms. This is a hands-on, high-leverage role where you’ll go beyond infrastructure automation to also build production-grade software and services — primarily in Go — that power ZeroTier’s global control plane. If you bring a strong SRE customer-centric mindset, deep GCP expertise, and enjoy building both infrastructure and the software that runs on it, you’ll thrive here.
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure using tools like GCP, Kubernetes, and Terraform
Develop and operate distributed platform services and backend components in Go
Build automation and internal tools to support deployment, scaling, and monitoring
Operate and optimize stateful infrastructure like Redis, GCP Pub/Sub, and PostgreSQL
Improve observability across our systems – metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
Lead or support high-severity incident response, postmortems, and system hardening efforts
Participate in a shared on-call rotation and contribute to a culture of operational excellence
Collaborate with engineers across teams to design reliable, observable systems from the start
Mentor peers and early-career engineers on infrastructure, architecture, and Go development best practices
What We’re Looking For
Senior-to-staff-level experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or SRE
Production experience with Go: not just scripting or tooling, but software development
Deep experience with GCP, Terraform, and Kubernetes in production environments
Experience working with event-driven architectures (e.g., GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar)
Strong understanding of observability, automation, and reliability engineering principles
Ability to design and build internal platforms or backend systems that support developer velocity
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, secret management, and production deployment strategies
Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-functional leadership skills
A track record of owning large-scale projects or systems end-to-end
Experience in startup or fast-paced environments is a strong plus
Benefits
Hybrid office / remote work environment
High growth equity compensation package
Generous employer-paid health insurance, including preventative dental care for adults
401K Plan
Flexible PTO policy
Flexible work hours (subject to management approval)
Career Enhancement Funds
Employee Referral Bonus
More About ZeroTier
Founded in 2013 by Adam Ierymenko, ZeroTier’s mission is to make peer-to-peer networking with strong encryption so simple, secure, and intuitive that it becomes the default for the internet. To do this ZeroTier simplifies complex networking across physical boundaries, unifying cloud and edge environments. Our network virtualization platform offers enterprise-grade software-defined networking for every device, service, and applications, whether at the edge or in the cloud. It’s powerful enough for large businesses and defense applications, yet easy for individuals to use for tasks like gaming or remote access. Our team is the best of the best, working diligently to solve the hard technical challenges underlying high-performance decentralized networking. We help our customers run networks free of handcuffs and endless minutiae. Come join us! To find out more, please check us out at:
PLEASE NOTE: Individuals seeking employment at ZeroTier are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. Direct applicants ONLY. Any recruiter/3rd party submissions we receive will be considered a gift. Written CV’s and Cover Letters are encouraged. No calls please.
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