Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Build the shared infrastructure that helps Higgsfield’s product teams ship quickly and run reliable services. You’ll own problems from finding the bottleneck to shipping a solution and supporting it in production.
What you’ll do
- Build shared services for queues, job scheduling, caching, configuration, and service communication.
- Improve concurrency limits, resource allocation, and recovery for long-running media workloads.
- Make database access, migrations, and connection management safer and faster.
- Simplify service setup, testing, deployment, and production debugging.
- Improve observability, investigate incidents, and reduce infrastructure cost per completed job.
- Work directly with product engineers, ship focused improvements, and measure the results. Our release cycle is days, not quarters.
Required
- Experience running production systems on Kubernetes (K8s) and AWS, including deployments, scaling, networking, and troubleshooting.
- Strong software engineering skills: you build shared services, tools, and automation that other engineers use.
- Experience with databases, queues, and distributed systems, including performance debugging, safe rollouts, and recovery.
- A difficult production problem you owned from an unclear starting point to a working solution.
- Ability to set priorities, make practical tradeoffs, remove blockers, and ask for help when needed.
- Clear communication, openness to feedback, and knowledge sharing so others can operate and extend your work.
Nice to have
- Cloudflare.
- Infrastructure as code.
- PostgreSQL, Redis, or event-streaming systems.
- High-throughput media pipelines or AI workload orchestration.
Interview process
1. Recruiter screen: expectations, logistics, and fit.
2. Technical interview: a difficult system you shipped, your decisions, and the results.
3. Additional technical interview, if needed.
4. Product fit interview: investigate a team’s bottleneck and plan a practical improvement, adoption, and safe rollout.
5. Offer.
What we offer
Competitive base pay in USD, equity, relocation support, and ownership of infrastructure used across our engineering teams.