Rokt
Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Seattle, WA, USA
mParticle by Rokt is widely recognized as one of the leading customer data platforms, serving hundreds of global brands and helping them turn data to insights and insights to action. Built on top of end-to-end streaming architecture, we are committed to empowering businesses to deliver personalized and engaging experiences to their customers across all screens and devices. We believe that the opportunity to help teams activate insights from their customer data to deliver more relevant and adaptive experiences is more important than ever. In January 2025 mParticle merged with Rokt and became mParticle by Rokt. Together, our AI and ML-powered Rokt Brain and ecommerce Rokt Network will power more than 6.5 billion transactions, connecting 400 million customers across the world’s leading companies.
We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader.
Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies.
We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation.
The mParticle by Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams, and gain exposure to a wide range of technology.
At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation. At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt’stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure)
Target total compensation ranges from $300,000 - $325,000, including a fixed annual salary of $200,000 - $225,000, an employee equity plan grant, and world-class benefits.
Equity grants are issued in good faith and are subject to company policies, board approval, and individual eligibility.
As our Sr Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll architect and operate the foundational control plane and data services that power our containerized workloads—spanning EKS clusters, core addons, container registries, batch processing gateways, and inter-region networking. You’ll ensure our platform delivers resilient compute, seamless streaming, and the tooling teams need to ship at peak velocity.
About the role:
Design, deploy, and manage EKS clusters and ECR registries (supporting both Linux and macOS agents)
Own the full suite of EKS core and observability addons—CSI/CNI/CoreDNS, Cert-Manager, Gatekeeper, Ingress controllers, Karpenter, KEDA, Argo Rollouts, External Secrets, Velero, YuniKorn scheduler, and image swapper
Enable batch workloads on Kubernetes by operating our Spark Gateway API and Spark Operator, and support Spark RBAC, scheduling queues, and history servers
Build and maintain our workflow engine and related automation for orchestration of complex data and ML pipelines
Architect and maintain network foundations—VPCs, subnets, peering, edge gateways, and Istio service mesh—to ensure secure, high-performance connectivity across regions
Requirements
About You:
5+ years of experience in platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering roles, with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
Deep expertise in AWS EKS, ECR, container orchestration (Helm, Argo), and core Kubernetes addons
Hands-on mastery of Spark on Kubernetes (Gateway, Operator) and workflow schedulers like Flyte or Airflow
Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, Terraform) and proficiency with Linux administration
Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and can evangelize best practices across teams
Familiarity with network topology (VPCs, peering, Istio)
Benefits
About Rokt’stars:
As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock real-time relevancy in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks, or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.
About the Benefits:
We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it:
Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual training allowance
Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
Dog-friendly office
Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
Work with the greatest talent in town
See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London
We believe we’re better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.
We at Rokt choose to create a company that is as diverse and inclusive as the world we live in by attracting, growing & keeping the best talent. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
$200,000-225,000/year
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