Infrastructure Engineer, Edge Compute

About Telnyx Telnyx is an industry leader that's not just imagining the future of global connectivity—we're building it. From architecting and amplifying the reach of a private, global, multi-cloud IP network, to bringing hyperlocal edge technology right to your fingertips through intuitive APIs, we're shaping a new era of seamless interconnection between people, devices, and applications. We're driven by a desire to transform and modernize what's antiquated, automate the manual, and solve real-world problems through innovative connectivity solutions. As a testament to our success, we're proud to stand as a financially stable and profitable company. Our robust profitability allows us not only to invest in pioneering technologies but also to foster an environment of continuous learning and growth for our team. Our collective vision is a world where borderless connectivity fuels limitless innovation. By joining us, you can be part of laying the foundations for this interconnected future. We're currently seeking passionate individuals who are excited about the opportunity to contribute to an industry-shaping company while growing their own skills and careers.What You Will Do - Deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers and edge locations.- Build and maintain the networking that connects and isolates our edge infrastructure, including VPNs, routing, network policies, and firewalls.- Own infrastructure automation for cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and recovery.- Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform/OpenTofu and configuration management tools such as Ansible.- Build and operate secure runtime environments for customer workloads, including containers, microVMs, and ephemeral sandboxed workloads.- Improve cluster reliability, observability, and capacity as the platform grows across providers and regions.- Build out Prometheus metrics and alerting for infrastructure and platform observability.- Harden workload and network isolation, and help define security boundaries for running untrusted customer code.- Participate in on-call and troubleshoot problems across Linux, containers, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure. What You Bring - 1–3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, including cluster-level operations and troubleshooting.- Strong Linux and container fundamentals.- Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, NAT, and routing.- Infrastructure-as-code and automation experience with tools such as Terraform/OpenTofu and Ansible.- Experience working with at least one major cloud provider and an understanding of cloud networking, compute, and storage.- Experience diagnosing production issues across multiple layers of the infrastructure stack.- Security mindset: you think about attack surfaces, tenant isolation, and running untrusted workloads safely. Nice to Have - Experience operating Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers or regions.- Experience with Kubernetes networking and CNI implementations such as Calico.- Firecracker, Kata Containers, or other microVM/container isolation technologies.- Container runtime experience, including containerd, cgroups, namespaces, or seccomp.- Knative or other serverless infrastructure.- Experience with ephemeral compute, sandboxing, CI runners, build systems, or other platforms that execute user-provided code.- BGP, WireGuard, or software-defined networking experience.- Rancher/RKE2 specifically.- Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).- Go or Python experience for infrastructure tooling and automation.