Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Grammarly Requirements Qualifications Has a minimum of 5 years of experience managing live production SaaS environments with high load. Is experienced in working on a centralized reliability or SRE team configuration. Hands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure solutions such as container orchestration and service discovery in Kubernetes-based environments. Background in software development or engineering roles with a focus on reliability. Is knowledgeable on all things Reliability and how to scale those solutions across the engineering organization. Is knowledgeable of AWS —or has deep expertise in Azure or GCP and is willing to learn AWS quickly. Can deliver maintainable and high-quality code in Go or other languages. Can communicate well and collaborate effectively, empathetically, and proactively on a tightly integrated team. Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable. Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust. Scope of Work In this role, you will: Use modern infrastructure management tools and services like AWS to build a massively scalable platform for Grammarly’s services. Be an ambassador for Operational Excellence – building and continually improving incident management tooling and processes. Implement proactive reliability improvements to reduce manual intervention and increase reliability. This includes automated deployment improvements, canary analysis, self-healing mechanisms, and autoscaling. Manage cloud-native infrastructure solutions, such as cross-service infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters and deployments, auto-scaling tool sets, and service discovery. Build solutions and frameworks to spin up, test, deploy, and observe Grammarly’s service reliability. Participate in on-call incident response and escalation procedures. Benefits Support for you, professionally and personally Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback. A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.