Stream
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Amsterdam office
Employer listed it 5 weeks ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 5 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Amsterdam office
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $175k–$230k a year, a typical range taken from 595 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Amsterdam office, Remote (EU), Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Amsterdam office, Remote (EU), Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
The role
We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help rebuild the platform underneath Stream. Over the next year the infrastructure team is moving from AWS to GCP, moving onto Kubernetes, and relocating 35 to 40 Postgres shards off managed RDS to self-hosted, while the platform keeps serving billions of API requests a month. You will own parts of that outright.
This is a small, senior team without the support structures of a large organisation. You will write code most of the time and make infrastructure calls on your own. Success looks like systems that scale predictably under load, cloud spend that falls per unit of traffic, and migrations that land without incident.
This is a full-time job opening based in Amsterdam (3 days hybrid) or remote in Europe/EU.
About Stream
Stream powers real-time Chat , Video , Activity Feeds , and AI Moderation for billions of end-users across thousands of apps, from Strava and Bumble to eBay and Patreon. Our platform processes billions of API requests per month and supports applications with millions of concurrent users, while delivering highly reliable, low-latency services and a great developer experience.
What you will do
Design, build and operate infrastructure for real-time systems carrying millions of concurrent connections and billions of monthly API requests.
Drive Kubernetes end to end: cluster architecture, workload design and the migration of existing services. You will be designing clusters, not operating someone else's.
Re-architect workloads as part of the AWS to GCP migration, for cost and performance rather than a lift and shift.
Own cloud cost and efficiency work: find the levers, measure them against real spend and utilisation data, and show what moved.
Write production Go and Python: internal services, platform tooling and automation that change how product and SDK engineers deploy, observe and debug.
Lead post-migration tuning and capacity planning, closing the loop between the architecture you chose and what production actually does.
Work with backend, video and moderation engineers on system design, reliability targets and tradeoffs that cross service boundaries.
Take part in on-call, incident response and root cause analysis, and turn what you find into durable fixes.
What we are looking for
5+ years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps or SRE engineering, with clear depth in infrastructure over application development.
A software engineering background. You have built systems, not only configured them. Production coding experience in Go or Python. Scripting-only backgrounds are not a fit.
Kubernetes at meaningful production scale, past operations: you have driven cluster strategy, designed workloads, or led a migration, and you have tuned what came out the other side for cost and efficiency.
Cloud cost or efficiency optimisation you personally led on AWS or GCP, with an outcome you can put a number on. FinOps practice is a plus.
Direct experience running high-scale, high-load production systems.
Strong cloud fundamentals across networking, compute, storage and IAM, and the habit of asking why a system behaves the way it does instead of accepting the default.
Comfortable in a small team: leading a project and reviewing a PR in the same week.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·For employees based in the Netherlands:
- ·Generous compensation and company equity
- ·28 days paid time off plus Dutch public holidays
- ·A pension scheme
- ·A learning and development budget
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Stream, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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