Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.

With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.

Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!

About the Attentive Team

Have you ever received text message marketing from your favorite brand with an incredible offer? Did you know that effective text message marketing is by far the highest ROI marketing channel? And did you know that customers are increasingly preferring to interact with brands through text? That is what we do at Attentive. We help the world’s largest brands interact with their clients at the right time and with the right message. Our platform powers more than 400 million messages per day, approaching 100 billion per year.

We’re building big things!  Check out our tech blog here: https://tech.attentive.com/

About the Role

Our Platform Infrastructure team is the backbone of everything we do at Attentive, providing a resilient and cost-effective platform that seamlessly handles billions of events from over 100 million customers daily. We own everything from compute, persistence, and networking to observability and deployments. Joining our team offers a high-growth career opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s most talented engineers in a high-performance, high-impact culture.

We’re looking for a self-motivated Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Data Infrastructure team. In this role, you'll take ownership of the foundational components powering our data storage and streaming services, ensuring they are resilient, scalable, manageable, and highly available. You'll work closely with our microservices architecture teams, empowering them to move with confidence in our data’s integrity and availability. If you’re excited by the challenge of working with a diverse set of technologies—from streaming (Kafka, Pulsar) and query engines (Trino, Druid) to persistent data stores (Postgres, MySQL, OpenSearch)—this could be the perfect fit.

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and extensible big data systems to power our core products and enable business growth
• Develop automation strategies that streamline data services and ensure a stable infrastructure for all engineering teams
• Champion DevOps practices to foster a culture of quality and enhance developer productivity
• Lead peer design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge-sharing sessions to elevate team collaboration and technical expertise
• Continuously improve system reliability, availability, and scalability through your technical leadership and expertise

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Infrastructure Engineer or in similar roles like Platform Engineer, SRE, DevOps, or Backend Engineer with a data storage focus
• Experience managing and operating data platform technologies like PostgreSQL, MySQL, OpenSearch, Kafka, Druid, Trino, OpenMetadata, and Redis
• Experience with data modeling, schema design, and db administration
• Proficiency in managing and operating cloud infrastructure at scale using Kubernetes, Terraform, and Datadog. Familiarity with cloud computing concepts like access control and instance management
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze trade-offs, collaborate with developer peers, and adopt a solutions-oriented approach
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery strategies in a cloud environment, along with monitoring and logging tools.
• You embrace blameless post-incident analysis and are committed to continuous improvement

• We use a wide variety of technology and we’re always looking for the best solutions to solve hard problems
• Attentive’s backend is Java / Spring Boot microservices, built with Gradle, and hosted via AWS
• Our infrastructure is Kubernetes-centric, with Argo CD leveraged for deployments, Terraform for configuration management, and Spacelift as configuration control
• As a Data Team, we support a number of different data storage solutions across several paradigms
• MySQL and PostgreSQL as Relational Database solutions
• Redis and Valkey as the Cache offering
• AWS DynamoDB and PlanetScale are Horizontally Scalable Database solutions
• Apache Druid and Trino for Real-Time Analytics
• Apache Pulsar as a Streaming Data platform
• Apache Airflow and Temporal as Workflow engines
• AWS S3 as Object storage

You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.

For US based applicants:

- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $140,000 - $200,000 annually + equity + benefits

- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location

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Attentive Company Values

Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose

Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions

Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success

Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success

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If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.

At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.