Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Emergent — Bangalore, US
- Company: Emergent
- Location: Bangalore, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 1–8000000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
Since public launch, Emergent has reached $100M ARR in 8 months. 6M+ users across 190+ countries have built 6.5M+ applications on Emergent. We've raised $100M+ , backed by Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.
We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.
We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.
What You'll Be Responsible For
Platform & Infrastructure
Maintain stability of our platform consisting of distributed microservices closely interacting with Kubernetes and cloud providers (GCP, AWS)
Manage Kubernetes workloads with ArgoCD (GitOps) — deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot application syncs, resource trees, and rollouts
Debug and resolve complex Kubernetes issues across clusters
Manage CDN and edge infrastructure (Cloudflare) for performance, caching, and traffic management
Automate infrastructure lifecycle operations and workflows
Observability & Incident Response
Own the observability stack: Grafana (dashboards, Loki logs, Prometheus metrics), New Relic (APM, golden metrics, transaction analysis)
Enhance monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing across services
Participate in on-call rotation via PagerDuty , handle incident response, and perform root cause analysis
Proactively identify reliability risks before they become incidents
AI Agent Infrastructure
Support the platform that runs AI agent workloads — job scheduling, trajectory tracking, environment provisioning, deployments and cost attribution
Develop Kubernetes controllers and operators to extend platform capabilities for agent orchestration
Collaboration & Internal Tooling
Work closely with product and backend teams to ensure platform scalability and reliability
Build internal tools, automate workflows, and integrate systems to improve team productivity
Stay current with Kubernetes releases, CNCF ecosystem updates, and cloud-native best practices
What We're Looking For
Core Requirements
3+ years of software/platform engineering experience with production systems
Strong proficiency in Go or Python — you write production code in at least one daily
Hands-on experience building and deploying services on Kubernetes — not just YAML, you've developed something that runs on K8s
Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
Systems Fundamentals
Strong networking and DNS fundamentals — TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, DNS resolution, TLS, and debugging connectivity issues
Solid Linux/OS fundamentals — process management, filesystem, memory, systemd, and comfortable debugging with tools like strace, tcpdump, and netstat
Data & Messaging Infrastructure
Relational databases — experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar; indexing, query optimization, replication, and backup/restore procedures
NoSQL databases — familiarity with MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar for document/key-value workloads
Caching — experience with Redis, Memcached, or similar for application and infrastructure-level caching
Message queues & streaming — hands-on with Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, or similar for event-driven architectures
Strong SQL skills for debugging and operational queries
Infrastructure & Observability
Comfortable with the CNCF ecosystem — Helm, Kustomize, cert-manager, Ingress controllers, CNI/CSI interfaces
Hands-on with at least one observability stack (Grafana/Prometheus/Loki, New Relic, Datadog, or similar)
Familiarity with GCP and/or AWS — managed Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), networking, IAM, storage, and cloud-native services (SES, SQS, S3, etc.)
Experience with CDN/edge platforms (Cloudflare, CloudFront, or similar)
Nice to Have
Experience building Kubernetes Operators (kubebuilder, operator-sdk, or controller-runtime)
Experience tuning Kubernetes core components (API server, kubelet, scheduler)
Familiarity with AI/LLM infrastructure — token management, cost tracking, agent orchestration
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment pipelines)
Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
Previous work on large-scale distributed systems or platform-as-a-service
Startup experience — you thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
What You're Like
You're a generalist who can context-switch between debugging a K8s deployment, setting up a Grafana alert, and configuring CDN rules — all in the same day
You enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges and automating away toil
You dig deep — when something breaks, you find the root cause, not just the workaround
You communicate clearly and can collaborate effectively in a fast-moving, distributed team
Tech Stack
We don't require previous experience with our entire stack, but enthusiasm for learning is key.
Go · Python · Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Helm · GCP · AWS · Cloudflare · Grafana · Prometheus · Loki · New Relic · PagerDuty · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · Kafka · GitHub
Why Emergent Labs
YC S24 backed with strong investor support
Building at the frontier of AI-powered software creation
Small team, high ownership, real impact from day one