Senior Infrastructure Engineer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)

(Fully remote, async-first, DevTool SaaS, 32-40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3)

Checkly is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join an early stage company, influence the product roadmap and help us do what we love most: building the #1 monitoring platform for developers.

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Join Checkly as a Software Engineer Infrastructure and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!

Checkly is the leading synthetic monitoring platform helping Engineers at Linkedin, Citibank, Render, Vercel and over 1000 other companies to build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability.

Our tech stack is Claude Code, Vue.js, TypeScript, Golang, Postgres and ClickHouse. We host a hybrid cloud on AWS and bare metal infrastructure. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products.

We’re a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping. If you love building cool things, working async, actually listening to and working with customers, and keeping it lean, you’ll fit right in!

In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.

What you'll do

• Work with a team of highly skilled Staff and Senior Engineers

• Evolve and optimize our hybrid AWS and bare metal infrastructure to securely run sandboxed code and AI Agents with industry leading cost efficiency

• Investigate customer and infrastructure problems down to the packet capture and process memory level together with the team to ensure customers can trust Checkly

• Contribute to infrastructure reliability and ensure systems stay snappy for ad hoc and scheduled workloads without breaking or exploding costs

• Collaborate with product engineers to improve developer experience, support our strong shipping culture and provide observability they need

What you should have

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining bare metal and cloud infrastructure for production services

• Deep Linux administration experience

• Experience managing automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible or similar tools

• Basic or ideally advanced Kubernetes knowledge

• Excellent spoken and written English skills

• Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others.

• FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones.

Why us?

• Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are. (more info below)

• Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture

• Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where your work matters—your impact won’t get lost in layers of bureaucracy.

• Stock options

• 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays

• Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 learning, visiting and wellbeing budget

• Co-working budget or home office setup

• Bi-annual company retreats

• Employee & contractor options

Find out more here.

What we pay

Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location.

For this role, the range is

• €88k-€107k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc.

• €79k-€97k for someone in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc.

If you live in a lower cost of market location, that also moves the pay range.

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women, non-binary people and POC will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you!

We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook and open-sourced our employee handbook. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are, how we work and what you can expect in our hiring process.