Infrastructure Engineer (Data) at Telnyx

The Role

• Telnyx infrastructure team is building a next-generation platform that spans across multiple cloud providers and multiple continents. We leverage the Telnyx private backbone network with cross-connects to major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM Cloud to build a cloud-agnostic, highly available platform. With our lean team, we're currently running infrastructure in 10 PoPs and 3 continents.

In This Role You Will

• Design, develop, and deploy scalable solutions for managing databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, and others, both in virtualized environments and Kubernetes clusters.
• Collaborate with engineering to identify and resolve pain points in managing large-scale, high-availability database infrastructure.
• Lead the migration of existing database services from VMs to Kubernetes, ensuring minimal downtime and seamless transitions.
• Support disaster recovery, backup strategies, and performance tuning for on-premise database systems.
• Implement and manage observability, logging, and alerting systems.

Must-Have Experience

• 3+ years of professional experience in infrastructure operations, especially in Linux-based systems.
• Expertise in at least one deployment and orchestration technology (Kubernetes, Ansible, or Terraform), with a focus on deploying and managing stateful applications
• Skills in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar, to automate workflows and manage infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience managing at least one relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL