Senior Infrastructure Engineer

ABOUT US Weekend https://www.weekend.com/ is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune. We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.” Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco. ROLE SUMMARY Weekend is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure as our AI gaming platform grows. You'll own our Kubernetes cluster, lead security improvements, drive infrastructure automation and best practices, administer AWS accounts, and serve as the primary infrastructure partner for our software engineering teams. This is a foundational role — you'll directly enable Weekend's game teams to move fast without compromising reliability. This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work. WHAT YOU’LL DO AT WEEKEND - Manage and ensure the stability of Weekend's Kubernetes cluster (EKS) - Audit and enhance our infrastructure security posture, including secrets management and secure-by-default design - Lead the adoption of infrastructure best practices through automation and internal education - Administer Weekend's AWS account(s), including IAM, networking, cost management, and cloud resource governance across all environments - Empower software engineers to manage their own infrastructure through self-service tooling and robust documentation - Pair with software engineers to solve their day-to-day infrastructure problems - Define a proactive security strategy that bakes best practices into the developer workflow - Develop an infrastructure strategy for our AI initiative WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE: - 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles - Proven experience administering large numbers of remote machines (Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Ansible) - Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal tools that make engineering teams more productive - Strong security fundamentals: secrets management, threat modeling, and secure-by-default design - Experience managing build automation (Travis, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions) - A track record of operating in fast-moving environments with rapid product iteration - High ownership mentality — you treat infrastructure problems as your problems to solve - Deep user empathy — you build for the developers who depend on your systems BONUS POINTS: - Experience with modern NodeJS, JVM, or similar modern runtimes - Background working on large-scale gaming or consumer platforms - Experience with observability tooling (e.g., DataDog) OUR STACK - AWS - Kubernetes on EKS - GitOps (FluxCD) - Terraform - AWS GameLift Streams - GitHub Actions - DataDog - TypeScript/NodeJS - React - Unity THE HIRING PROCESS - Stage 1 (Recruiter Screen): 30-minute call with a member of our recruiting team - Stage 2 (Manager Screen + Technical Round): 45 minute call with the hiring manager and a 60min live technical session with the engineering team - Stage 3 (Onsite): Panel interviews with various team members - Stage 4 (Founders Chat): Conversation with our founders As an AI company, we’re a huge believer in the value of AI tools. That being said, the interview process is intended as a conversation - we want to get to know