Department

Engineering

Overview

Application

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for an infrastructure engineer who can own our entire cloud stack. You'll build and operate the systems that power billions of requests, improve observability across everything we run, and expand our infrastructure as we grow.

About SearchApi

SearchApi is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and many more. We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies and fast-moving startups who need reliable search data at scale.

We're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.

🎯 Why Join Us?

• Real Impact: Small team, massive scale. Your infrastructure runs in production serving billions of requests.
• Hard Problems: Browser clouds, websocket connections, TCP tuning, multi-region deployments, autoscaling at scale.
• Full Ownership: You won't be one of 50 SREs. You'll own the stack.
• Fortune 500 Customers: Our API powers production workloads, not just pilots and experiments.
• Bootstrapped and Profitable: We answer to customers, not investors.

We are searching for grinders who take ownership and move fast. At SearchApi, you shape the direction, make decisions, and ship. This is not a ticket-driven ops role. You identify problems and solve them.

💻 Tech Stack

• AWS: Fargate, ECS, EKS, RDS Postgres, ElastiCache Redis, VPC
• Terraform
• Docker
• Ruby on Rails 8.1, Ruby 3.4

We use Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Intercom, GitHub, and Slack daily. We ship multiple times a day with CI/CD.

🤖 You Control AI, AI Doesn't Control You

We ship faster because we use AI tools aggressively. Cursor and Claude. But you own the output. If you can't evaluate what AI produces, you're not ready for this role.

💪 What You'll Do

• Own and improve observability across the entire stack: metrics, logging, alerting, dashboards.
• Architect and operate browser cloud infrastructure: containerized browsers, session isolation, crash recovery, autoscaling.
• Handle websocket connections, CDP tunnels, and TCP-level tuning for browser automation.
• Write and maintain Terraform for all infrastructure. Everything is code.
• Tune autoscaling, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Expand to new regions as we grow.
• Experiment with Lambdas, new cloud providers for custom scraping needs.
• Debug production issues: memory leaks, zombie processes, network failures.
• Build disaster recovery and incident response runbooks.
• Work with Linux systems, Dockerfiles, container orchestration daily.

This is a senior role:

• You've done this before at scale.
• You can architect systems, not just maintain them.
• You mentor other engineers on infrastructure best practices.