About the Role
We're looking for a Software Engineer, Infrastructure to build the systems that power Capitol's platform — from cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes operations to CI/CD, observability, and internal tooling. You'll make a huge impact as part of a small team and have meaningful influence over how we scale and secure our infrastructure as we grow.
This is a high-ownership role. You'll be solving real problems across multi-tenant and single tenant environments serving enterprise and government clients.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and compliant cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that improve developer velocity without sacrificing quality.
- Operate and improve Kubernetes-based systems, ensuring reliability across development and production environments.
- Drive observability — defining metrics, building dashboards, and making system health visible and actionable.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems.
- Contribute to compliance efforts (SOC 2 and beyond), translating controls into infrastructure reality.
- Build internal tooling and automation that makes engineers more productive.
- Collaborate proactively across teams, surfacing issues before they become blockers.
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Have 7+ years building and operating production infrastructure.
- Have led complex, cross-functional infrastructure projects end to end.
- Take ownership — you drive things to completion without waiting to be asked.
- Communicate clearly and proactively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Are fluent in Python, Go, Rust, or similar.
- Have deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, and at least one major cloud (GCP, Azure, or preferably AWS).
- Are experienced with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar).
- Have worked with security or compliance frameworks (SOC 2, FedRAMP, ISO 27001, or similar).
- Have enterprise software experience — you understand the constraints, expectations, and deployment patterns that come with large organizational clients.
- Have operated data or AI infrastructure at scale — experience running and supporting systems like Ray, Spark, or Temporal in production, where reliability and throughput directly impact model training or inference workloads.
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience in early-stage startups or hyper-growth environments.
- Familiarity with multi-tenant SaaS architecture, data isolation, and GitOps patterns.
- Government or regulated industry experience.
- Contributions to open source infrastructure projects.
🚀 Y Combinator Company Info
Y Combinator Batch: S24
Team Size: 11 employees
Industry: B2B Software and Services -> Productivity
Company Description: Capitol: the sovereign operating system for intelligence.
💰 Compensation
Salary Range: $160,000 - $210,000
📋 Job Details
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: 6+ years
Engineering Type: Devops
🛠️ Required Skills
Kubernetes