Software Engineer, Shared Product Infrastructure

at  Grammarly Inc

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Grammarly team members in this role must be based in Germany or Ukraine, and, depending on business needs, they must meet in person for collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where their team is based.
This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

THE OPPORTUNITY

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Shared Product Infrastructure team as part of the wider Engineering Platform team. This role will build world-class, secure, and reliable cloud-native infrastructure solutions for Grammarly engineers that will scale with our user base.
Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.
In this role, you will be a key player in shaping the common infrastructure that powers our Cloud Platform solutions. This is a pivotal role dedicated to enhancing developer experience and significantly impacting business outcomes. By developing and maintaining shared product infrastructure, this role enables business teams to focus on product delivery and reduces the cognitive load of working with complex infrastructure. You will design, build, and manage robust, scalable, and secure components, ensuring seamless provisioning, compliance, and reliability. You will work closely with various engineering teams to streamline infrastructure provisioning, enhance developer productivity, and drive innovation across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Use modern infrastructure management tools and services like AWS to build a massively scalable platform for Grammarly’s services.
• Create and maintain shared infrastructure components that streamline developer workflows.
• Develop a user-friendly self-service portal for easy infrastructure provisioning, allowing business teams to focus on core competencies.
• Streamline infrastructure management with automation tools, reducing manual tasks and setup times.
• Provide timely support and resolve common infrastructure issues, reducing downtime and maintaining productivity.
• Enhance infrastructure performance, reliability, and scalability, continuously seeking ways to improve the developer experience.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and provide the necessary support and solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Has a minimum of 3 years of experience managing live production SaaS environments with high load.
• 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.
• Is knowledgeable on messaging and distributed streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Is knowledgeable of AWS —or has deep expertise in Azure or GCP and is willing to learn AWS quickly.
• Has strong networking knowledge and familiarity with monitoring, logging, and IaC tools.
• 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.
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based.

• Use modern infrastructure management tools and services like AWS to build a massively scalable platform for Grammarly’s services.
• Create and maintain shared infrastructure components that streamline developer workflows.
• Develop a user-friendly self-service portal for easy infrastructure provisioning, allowing business teams to focus on core competencies.
• Streamline infrastructure management with automation tools, reducing manual tasks and setup times.
• Provide timely support and resolve common infrastructure issues, reducing downtime and maintaining productivity.
• Enhance infrastructure performance, reliability, and scalability, continuously seeking ways to improve the developer experience.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and provide the necessary support and solutions