What We're Looking For
We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the systems that power Focal at scale. We are looking for someone who can architect, build, and operate production infrastructure.
The core challenge is scale. We are processing millions of images per day across thousands of retail locations globally, and that number is growing fast. Our infrastructure needs to be reliable, cost-efficient, and capable of handling an order-of-magnitude increase in load without a proportional increase in cost or complexity.
Must have
- 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering.
- Production experience with GCP at scale.
- Kubernetes, Helm and Docker in production.
- Python – our stack is Python end-to-end. You'll read, debug, and contribute to backend code daily, so a software development background (not just ops scripting) is essential.
- Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform.
- Observability with Prometheus – metrics, alerting, and instrumentation.
- Solid CI/CD fundamentals and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
About you
- You take ownership and prioritize well in a startup environment.
- You're well-rounded rather than a lone hero - you cover gaps across the stack and reliably own the day-to-day and less-complex work, freeing the team to focus on the hardest problems.
- Advanced written and spoken English.
- Comfortable coordinating across time zones with a global team.
- Comfortable with a shared on-call rotation.
Why Focal Systems Strong Values and Mission - We are a tightly-knit team with an ambitious mission and a strong set of core values, which define our approach to business and have successfully guided us since inception.
Exceptional Team – We are a team of hard-working, fun-loving professionals from some of the most eminent universities, research labs, and tech companies of our time. We pride ourselves on recruiting exceptional individuals to help us redefine the state-of-the-art.
Outstanding Partners – We work with some of the largest retailers in the world and have a world-class roster of investors, advisors and partners to support & advise us in our endeavors.