Platform Infrastructure Engineer – Insight Softmax Consulting team

Together with our partner, Insight Softmax Consulting, we are looking for experienced infrastructure engineer to work for the prominent client from the aerospace industry.

While the exact nature and purpose of this work is confidential, it is an extremely exciting set of projects and objectives that touch HPC, ML, Simulation, and Quantum swim lanes. Insight Softmax Consulting’s platform team is building Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) services and architecture that will integrate directly with ML and Simulation services. You will interface and work with some of the most experienced and talented people on the planet across these swim lanes.

Key responsibilities:

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building and maintaining software services, expertise in distributed systems, and a passion for systems engineering, scaling, and data architecture. This role involves working closely with our development teams to design, implement, and optimize solutions that meet our growing needs.
Design, build, and maintain our infrastructure, software services, and distributed systems.
Develop and implement scalable distributed systems for complex computing tasks.
Scaling services, systems, and operations from smaller deployments of ~50 nodes in a single region into larger ~250+ node clusters across multiple regions.
Using orchestration, configuration management, virtualization, linux, CLI, deploy tools, monitoring, APM.
Monitor systems performance and implement improvements to ensure scalability and efficiency.
Participate in the entire lifecycle of services—from design through deployment, operation, and refinement.
Contribute to internal documentation and knowledge sharing to support team growth and efficiency.
Optimizing engineering and deliverables to balance feature development, product quality, service reliability.

Required Skills:

At least 3-5 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, or a similar role.
Strong understanding of systems engineering principles and scaling strategies.
Demonstrable experience that you helped scale operations. Where did you start, where did you get to, and how did you get there?
Deep knowledge of at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure. Preferably AWS.
Strong linux chops.
Knowledge of systems monitoring, alerting, and analytics (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) practices.
Experience with container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).

Additional Information

Significant overlap with US CT time (-6 to UTC) is expected.
On-call rotations have not yet started in our business, but will likely begin sometime in 2024.
Travel for up to 4 weeks per year to customer destinations.

What we offer

Mix of serious projects and great working atmosphere, well recognized on market.
Dynamic international work environment.
Skilled and senior co-workers.
Very good financial compensation.
Private medical care.
Personal and professional development – internal Tech talks and soft skills trainings.

About Insight Softmax Consulting:

When an organization needs Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI experts, Insight Softmax is the team to call. We don’t just use Data Science tools, we build them.

Our engineers are at the forefront of coding innovation and development, designing Data Science tools from the ground up. Our skilled engineers can tackle any challenge from creating GPU compilers to improving libraries for gradient boosted trees. We work with businesses in industries like technology, retail, finance, energy, automotive, gaming and more.

Join our team of world-class data scientists and make a real-world, tangible impact on our clients’ most challenging problems.

WHO WE ARE?

Bakson Ltd is a software development company based in Belgrade. We are working with teams around the world and take pride on variety of projects we handle and technology we use.

HOW DO WE WORK?

Our workflow is inspired by Agile and Lean principles. We’re not devoted to Scrum or any other framework, but are trying to work in small batches, with fast feedback and very close interaction with product owners.

The emphasis in our team is on collaboration and mutual support – sharing project workflow with globally distributed teams, contributing code to core global services and applications, and encouraging cultural exchange between development groups. Bakson encourages working from home, and the distributed nature of our teams requires us to have flexibility around working hours. We’re familiar with asynchronous and remote work. A Software Engineer in our company is a core writer of code, but also an inspirer and an exemplar to other developers…

Basically, what we care about is that you are a self-starter, happy to work with others, and prepared to adapt and do your best.

HOW TO APPLY?

We aim for our hiring process to be as collaborative and realistic as possible, so it’ll be focused on writing and reviewing code – both written by you and by others. We want you to feel like you’d be comfortable working with us, and we also want to feel the same way, so you’ll meet quite a few of the team, and interact with them in as close to a life-like way as possible. This is a two-way street – we’re keen for you to like us as much as the other way around. If you’d like get started, you can apply by pressing the “apply” button on this webpage or by sending a CV or an introductory email to [email protected]