Role Overview
We are seeking a Software Engineer - Infrastructure to maintain the stability of our platform, manage Kubernetes workloads, own the observability stack, and support AI agent infrastructure at scale.
About Emergent
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements & Eligibility
- 3+ years of software/platform engineering experience with production systems
- Strong proficiency in Go or Python
- Hands-on experience building and deploying services on Kubernetes
- Experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux, or similar)
- Strong networking and DNS fundamentals: TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, DNS resolution, TLS
- Solid Linux/OS fundamentals: process management, filesystem, memory, systemd
Required Skills & Tech
GoPythonKubernetesArgoCDCloudflare