Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at crypto exchange OKX: maintains and architects AWS cloud environments, owns the Databricks platform end to end, automates infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD, monitors production services and incidents, and supports big data/ML workloads across AWS and Alibaba Cloud.
- Compensation
- $214.7K–$322K / yr
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or relevant field, with 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, DBA or related positions
- Proficient in AWS distributed management, large-scale clustering, fault tolerance, backup, load balancing
- Deep understanding of high availability architecture, capacity planning, and handling complex problems
- Solid Linux operation, maintenance and debugging; troubleshooting, configuration tuning, performance analysis
- Familiar with Kubernetes (k8s) for container orchestration and management
- Rich practical experience deploying and tuning EC2, EKS, VPC or big data products
- Experience with microservices architecture, including deployment, scaling, and maintenance
- Experience monitoring, O&M and management of AWS large-scale servers and containers
- Hands-on experience with big data/ML platforms such as Databricks, AWS SageMaker, or Aliyun DSW
- Familiar with deployment, configuration and maintenance of Nginx, Kong and similar software
- Proficient in Python/Go/shell for development
- Proficient in at least one infrastructure sub-area: public cloud networking, SRE, DevOps or cloud-native
- Experience with internal developer platforms and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex)
- Excellent business analysis, system architecture and problem-solving ability; strong self-drive
Nice to have
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL/big-data storage (Redis, MongoDB, HBase)
- Working knowledge of Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin
- Familiar with operations of Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud and other cloud providers
Full description
Who We Are
At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er.
About the Team
Cloud Infrastructure Engineering is a critical engineering discipline and a job function in the company. Its charter is to build tools and infrastructure that promote early detection of production failures, leading to a stellar customer experience.
Our work is to drive safety, health and uptime of our platform, and the ability to remedy unforeseen problems. By removing some of the complex burdens on how to scale and maintain uptime in distributed systems, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer allows development teams to focus on feature development instead of the nuances of achieving and maintaining service level commitments.
About the Opportunity:
We’re looking for a creative and driven individual that can spearhead our effort to push “outside the box” infrastructure implementations, that will have a tremendous impact on our platform’s stability and scalability.
What You’ll Be Doing:
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Responsible for the maintenance and configuration of AWS products and services
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Responsible for the research, architecture and project implementation solutions based on AWS products
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Responsible for the daily maintenance of each AWS cloud environment
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Support the deployment, maintenance and scaling of big data and machine learning platforms (e.g., Databricks, AWS SageMaker, Aliyun DSW) to enable data processing and model training workflows
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Own the Databricks platform on AWS end to end: workspace provisioning, account/workspace configuration, cluster policies, instance pools, and SQL warehouses, managed as code via the Databricks Terraform provider
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Monitor and optimize Databricks cost and performance, including cluster sizing and autoscaling, Photon/serverless adoption, DBU usage tracking via system tables, and job reliability tuning
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Automate the provisioning, scaling, and configuration of infrastructure resources using tools like Terraform and CI/CD pipelines