Infrastructure Engineer, Ghost
$140-160k
+ Equity
Inventory distribution optimization
Open for applications
Inventory distribution optimization
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$140-160k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform how inventory is bought and sold.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of infrastructure or systems engineering experience, with a minimum of 3 years at a high-growth startup
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53, security groups, and related services), as well as experience with platforms like Railway or Vercel
- Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, access control, certificate management)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- Strong ownership mindset with comfort operating in ambiguity and resource-constrained environments
- Experience building and scaling infrastructure in lean, fast-paced startup environments
- Experience managing enterprise office networking, including switches, firewalls, VLANs, and Wi-Fi a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer who loves building reliable, scalable systems. You will play a critical role in keeping Ghost’s platform running during a pivotal stage of growth
- You will own our cloud infrastructure end-to-end, ensuring things are secure and always available
- You will work closely with Engineering, Data, Product, and Design to support a fast-moving organization, and as we build products both on the platform and off, you will ensure they are fully integrated with our AI infrastructure
- Own and manage Ghost’s cloud infrastructure across AWS, Railway, and Vercel, including VPC networking, compute, storage, IAM, and security configurations; ensuring our environments perform well and stay secure
- Design, configure, and maintain office networks across our LA and NY offices: switches, firewalls, VLANs, and Wi-Fi
- Partner closely with Engineering on the deployment pipeline, ensuring our cloud infrastructure is scaled appropriately and CI/CD systems run reliably
- Triage and troubleshoot infrastructure issues and outages in real time, and drive root cause analysis to prevent recurrence
- Handle security-related tickets, such as fixing and maintaining GitHub Actions and keeping client/dependency versions up to date
- Implement and enforce security and compliance best practices, including access control, certificate management, vulnerability management, and audit logging
- Evaluate and roll out new infrastructure and tooling, advising Engineering, Product, and Design on the best way to adopt and integrate them
- Collaborate with Data Engineering to support data infrastructure and pipeline needs
- Manage vendor relationships for networking hardware, cloud services, and security tooling; guiding the organization in strategic build vs. buy decisions to maximize ROI
- Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption to ensure reproducible, auditable environments
- Collaborate with Product and Leadership to translate operational needs into scalable infrastructure solutions
- Stay current on AI infrastructure trends and help evaluate their application to Ghost’s platform
Our take
Excess inventory is one of the biggest pain points for modern retailers. Ghost solves this problem by making it easier for retailers to buy and sell excess inventory discreetly and sustainably.
With retailers wasting around $500 billion a year on excess inventory, demand for solutions like Ghost's is sky-high. The company has also made good on this demand, emerging from stealth mode in 2022 and about $66 million in funding to date. Ghost, which functions in much the same way as eBay, has benefited hugely from its founder's prior experience in the apparel industry.
Ghost's clear focus on sustainability and discretion has broad market appeal, especially for large-scale retailers looking to reduce waste and improve their public image. If Ghost can continue to attract such clients, it could scale at an impressive pace in the coming years.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$40m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88m
Company HQ
Beverly Grove, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Josh Kaplan
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Previously worked as Senior Director of UEG Ventures, and was VP of Digital at Buck Mason.
Dee Murthy
(Co-Founder)They are also the Co-Founder of Young & Reckless and Five Four Group.
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