Infrastructure Engineer, Deel

Kubernetes / Node.js

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AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Kafka

Node.js

Postgres

Azure

Senior and Expert level

Remote from France, Germany, Spain, UK

Global payroll for employees and contractors

Be an early applicant

Global payroll for employees and contractors

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRInternal toolsPaymentsSaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Kafka

Node.js

Postgres

Azure

Senior and Expert level

Remote from France, Germany, Spain, UK

1001+ employees

FintechB2BHRInternal toolsPaymentsSaaS

Company mission

To make a change for people everywhere by empowering companies to eliminate hiring borders—so anyone, anywhere in the world, can access new opportunities.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure or Platform Engineering
Strong BE engineering skills: API design, Postgres, Kafka/Nats
Node.js/Go/Python background
Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure
Advanced experience with Kubernetes, including creating tools, controllers, or operators that extend its capabilities
Experience with all the standard Kubernetes tools:
Networking (ingress controllers, CoreDNS, external-dns, AWS LBC, oauth2-proxy)
Secret management (Vault, External Secrets)
Cluster autoscaling and resource tuning (Karpenter, VPA, goldilocks, KEDA)
Storage provisioning
Experience with Helm charts and GitOps
Experience working with and maintaining large k8s clusters: 1000 nodes, 30k+ pods
Excellent system design and problem-solving skills
Strong communication and collaboration abilities across multiple teams
Hands-on mindset, comfortable working in complex and evolving environments

Desirable

Have built internal developer platforms (in-house or with tools like Okteto, Gitpod, Crafting) or Kubernetes operators
Have production experience with Postgres Operators, e.g. CloudNativePG or Zalando
Have multi-region and multi-cloud experience

What the job involves

The Giger team builds and maintains one of Deel’s most powerful internal platforms: a sandbox system that enables engineers to develop, test, and deploy faster than ever
Giger allows product teams to spin up fully functional, production-like environments in minutes, complete with real databases, services, queues, and storage
Each sandbox is completely isolated, empowering teams to experiment freely, test infrastructure changes, and validate code safely at scale
Design, build, and maintain the control plane that powers hundreds of dynamic developer sandboxes
Develop backend tooling and services that automate sandbox creation, orchestration, and lifecycle management
Productize and provide infra as a platform including DBs, caches, object storage and queueing systems
Scale & tune the cluster to provide capacity for volatile workloads. You’ll become hands on with Karpenter/VPA/KEDA policies, right-sizing, pod density, bin-packing, and scheduling strategies for diverse, bursty workloads
Constantly track and optimize costs to be efficient. At our k8s scale all tiny decisions matter, from compute to storage and data transfer
Own the networking setup to mimic what we have in Production but pair it with greater DevEx at scale of hundreds of sandboxes - traffic routing and interception, ingress tuning, serving assets
Implement and evolve observability within sandboxes
Partner with Sandboxes SRE team to ensure uptime and reliability of hundreds of sandboxes daily
Work with Deel engineering to improve their DevEx and productize day to day needs into self-service platform

Our take

Remote work is growing exponentially, but global onboarding and payments haven't caught up. Deel is a payroll platform for remote teams that connects localized compliance and payments in one system of record, and automates everything.

Deel's goal is to offer every company that hires remote talents a one-stop-shop that makes onboarding, global compliance, and payments easy. The company's growth curve is one for the books, as it has been able to grow its customer base and team at an impressive rate. Its valuation follows suit, and now boasts being one of few businesses to hit $10+ billion just a year after hitting unicorn status.

With remote working here to stay, Deel has proven it got in at the right time, being well placed to capitalize on the trend of globally distributed teams. With such impressive backing, the company should be able to keep its success up as it moves into the future, bolstered by the release of new products and integrations that amplify the impact of its offering.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

277% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Trustpilot (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Oct 2025

$300m

SERIES E

May 2022

$50m

LATE VC

Total funding: $979.8m

Company HQ

Mid-Market, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Alex Bouaziz

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously a Researcher in Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Co-Founder and former CEO of Lifeslice.

Shuo Wang

(Co-Founder & CRO)

Previously a Researcher at MIT Newman Lab. Co-Founder and former CTO of Aeris Cleantec.

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