Triumph Arcade
Infrastructure Engineer
1mo ago
200000 –400000 USD / yearUSASeniorci/cdpostgresqlquery optimizationconnection poolingreplicationread routingschema evolution
Lead the creation and scaling of Triumph Arcade's infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines and database strategy to support high-traffic, real-money scale gaming platform.
Responsibilities
- As Triumph's first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer, you'll own the foundation that everything else runs on. Until now, our infrastructure has been built and maintained by the core engineering team alongside everything else — you'll be the first person whose entire mandate is to make it fast, observable, and bulletproof. Our platform touches gaming, finance, and social at real-money scale, which means there's no margin for downtime. You'll define how we build, ship, and scale from the ground up — CI/CD pipelines, the databases under our highest-traffic paths, and the telemetry that tells us what's actually happening in production. This is a greenfield mandate: you're not inheriting an infra org, you're starting one. As we scale toward our next order of magnitude of growth, you'll set the
- Establish Triumph's infrastructure function — set the standards, tooling, and practices that the team and future hires will build on.
- Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, making it fast and safe for a growing team to ship continuously.
- Take end-to-end ownership of scaling our backend systems, identifying bottlenecks before they become incidents and designing for the next 10x rather than the last one.
- Drive our database strategy as a deep Postgres expert — query optimization, connection pooling, replication and read routing, schema evolution, and keeping our highest-traffic data paths healthy under load.
- Build out observability and telemetry so the team can see, understand, and act on system behavior in real time — metrics, tracing, structured logging, and meaningful alerting.
- Partner with backend engineers to harden the systems that power our core business, from incident response to the architectural decisions that prevent the next one.
Requirements
- Strong experience operating and scaling large production systems, with a track record of true ownership — you don't just build it, you keep it healthy.
- Deep Postgres knowledge: you understand query planning, indexing, connection management, and what actually breaks at scale (Go and AlloyDB experience is a plus).
- Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Fluency with observability and telemetry tooling, and an instinct for what to measure.
- Comfort being the first and only person in a function — you're excited to set direction rather than inherit it, and you drive work to completion without a playbook handed to you.
- Tenacity, pragmatism, and high agency — you prioritize the most impactful work and drive it to completion.
Other
- High growth. Build a high-scale consumer platform that touches gaming, finance, and social with the autonomy to set our infrastructure direction.
- High agency. As our founding infrastructure hire, you'll own a large surface area from day one, with significant opportunity for leadership and growth.
- High energy. Passionate team who are proud of our work and velocity (16x year over year growth).
- Competitive salary and benefits. $400/mo lunch credit, healthcare, vision, dental, 401k, etc.
- Our team gathers 5 days a week at Triumph's headquarters at Levi's Plaza in San Francisco.