Senior Infrastructure & Reliability Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Melville, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
10 days ago
Posted on:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
The Opportunity
If innovation lives in your DNA and AI is already part of how you think build and operate youre going to love what were doing at KWI. Youll join a small senior team with a real mandate to design build and run the systems that power retail at scale. We move fast we automate aggressively and we expect every engineer to multiply their impact with modern tooling. Your fingerprints will be on the platform every day.
The Company
We are a small team with a big vision: to be the premier provider of cloud technology solutions for retailers. KWI offers a complete unified commerce solution from a single database specifically designed to help specialty retailers grow their business. Our portfolio of customers includes Pandora Bluemercury Tom Ford and many other globally recognizable brands.
We combine Point of Sale Merchandising Order Management eCommerce CRM and Loss Prevention into one cloud-based platform. We are a Values and Mission driven organization and we believe that if we develop and demonstrate leadership in our strategy operations and people we will continue to drive product innovation and service excellence.
The impact youll make
- Support and operate our Linux/UNIX systems VMware infrastructure CI/CD pipelines MySQL databases and containerized workloads that serve our retail clients 247.
- Own incidents end-to-end: triage alerts drive root-cause analysis across the application database and network layers and write the post-incident docs that stop recurrence.
- Tune and operate MySQL at production scale: query analysis replication topology backup and recovery and schema changes against live workloads.
- Containerize and template services using Docker and infrastructure-as-code patterns to make deployments repeatable declarative and boring.
- Improve observability across the fleet metrics logs traces and dashboards so problems are seen before customers feel them.
- Use modern AI-augmented engineering tools (Claude Code MCP-based workflows agentic automation) as a daily multiplier to operate faster and extend what one engineer can deliver.
- Document and mentor. Runbooks design docs and onboarding material arent an afterthought here theyre how the team scales.
What you will bring
- 5 years operating production Linux/UNIX (RHEL CentOS/Rocky Debian/Ubuntu) at meaningful scale.
- Strong MySQL operational experience replication performance tuning backups recovery and schema migrations.
- Hands-on VMware/vSphere experience in production environments.
- Java application-tier troubleshooting experience comfortable reading thread dumps GC logs and heap behavior.
- Solid DevOps fundamentals: Git CI/CD pipelines Ansible (or similar configuration management) Terraform (or similar IaC) and Docker.
- Networking literacy: TCP/IP DNS TLS HTTP/S load balancing basic firewalling. You can read a tcpdump and a cert chain.
- Comfortable scripting in Bash. Python is not required but you should have a working understanding of programming fundamentals and be able to read modify and write straightforward code.
- Strong troubleshooting instincts and the temperament lead under pressure.
- Real day-to-day experience using AI-augmented engineering tools (Claude Cursor Copilot MCP servers agentic workflows) not just demos.
- Experience with Datadog or comparable observability platforms.
As a member of the KWI team you will receive
- Full Medical Dental and Vision
- Annual bonus eligible
- Free gym in the building
- Generous PTO policy
- Summer year round
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Discount from building café
- 401(K) with a 50% company match (up to 6% of employee contribution)
- Employee Referral Program
- (1) Volunteer day each year
Our work space
We understand that our teams need flexibility which is why we follow a hybrid schedule. Our in-office days of Monday Tuesday and Thursday and employees are allowed to work remotely on Wednesdays and Friday.
We are also a collaborative group and believe that getting together in person allows our team to do their best work. Together we enjoy monthly events bagels every Thursday a state-of-the-art coffee machine a full snack pantry and many more surprise and delight moments throughout the year.
Our commitment to you
At KWI we know that cultivating diversity and fostering an inclusive work environment is critical to our impact and success. We create an environment where no individual is advantaged or disadvantaged because of their background. We offer equal opportunity employment regardless of race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability status age marital status or protected veteran status.
With a commitment to maintaining a bias-free environment in which harassment is prohibited we respect cultural diversity and comply with the laws of the places in which we operate. We expect our business partners suppliers clients and all our team members to uphold these commitments.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Learn about the KWI retail omnichannel platform: mobile POS, Merchandising, Inventory Management, eCommerce,Order Management, CRM and more.
