Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Blend is solving significant internal engineering challenges as we expand from processing thousands to millions of loans, at more and more lending organizations, and over an increasingly large part of the lifecycle of each loan. We're looking for engineers who are passionate about automation, scale, performance, security, and clean code.

Blend's Infrastructure team acts as a company within a company, empowering developers to ship their code faster and more securely. The work the team does is incredibly important and multiplies productivity across the entire organization. Two technologies sit at the core of everything we build: Kubernetes (EKS), which runs hundreds of services across our platform, and Terraform, through which we provision and operate nearly all of our cloud infrastructure as code.

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer with a deep focus on platform engineering to join our team. This role is ideal for someone who lives in Kubernetes and Terraform day to day and who thrives on building scalable systems and codifying infrastructure, a developer of internal tooling that enables developer velocity and operational excellence. This is not a traditional DevOps role, it's a software engineering position that embraces DevOps principles and infrastructure best practices to create resilient systems and empower teams.

• Kubernetes (EKS): The backbone of our compute platform.
• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code: Our source of truth for everything we own.
• Go: The language our internal developer tooling is built with.
• AWS: Our cloud provider and primary building platform.
• Docker: Standardized packaging for the workloads we run across the platform.

• Operate Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS preferred) at scale, supporting dynamic provisioning, intelligent autoscaling, secure multi-tenant workloads, and performing zero-downtime upgrades.
• Design and develop Infrastructure-as-Code using industry best practices. 
• Maintain and enhance our internal developer platform, tooling, and infrastructure workflows.
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for service incidents.

• Extensive hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production
• Strong, demonstrated experience authoring and operating Terraform in production, with a solid grasp of Infrastructure-as-Code principles, module design, and state management.
• Proficient in one major programming language such as Go (preferred), TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Rust, C++, etc.
• Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred).
• Proven track record of shipping and maintaining internal platforms, tooling, or developer infrastructure used at scale.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of Platform / SRE / Infrastructure experience.
• A team focused engineer that wants to collaborate with likeminded peers.
• Able to learn  and contribute to a diverse set of projects both open source and internally developed.

• We offer medical, dental, and vision benefits, with a generous employer contribution that helps keep your medical insurance costs low.
• Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability coverage
• Generous PTO, holidays, and maternity/parental leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): mental health, legal, childcare & eldercare, financial planning, college search, and more
• Voluntary benefits: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity theft, and legal insurance
• Monthly wellness stipend for fitness, mental health, and well-being
• Additional perks: Milk Stork, pet insurance, and paid volunteer time off

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Pre-tax savings: healthcare & dependent care FSAs, Limited Purpose FSA, and HSA