Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

As a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at OKX, you'll spearhead infrastructure implementations that drive the safety, health, and uptime of our platform. You join a critical engineering discipline focused on building tools and systems that enable early detection of production failures, ensuring stellar customer experience. Your work removes complex burdens from development teams so they can focus on feature development rather than the nuances of scaling and maintaining service level commitments.

What you'll do

• Maintain and configure AWS products and services across our infrastructure
• Research, architect, and implement solutions based on AWS products to solve complex infrastructure challenges
• Manage the daily maintenance of each AWS cloud environment
• Support the deployment, maintenance, and scaling of big data and machine learning platforms such as Databricks, AWS SageMaker, and Aliyun DSW to enable data processing and model training workflows
• Own the Databricks platform on AWS end to end, including workspace provisioning, account and workspace configuration, cluster policies, instance pools, and SQL warehouses, managed as code via the Databricks Terraform provider
• Monitor and optimize Databricks cost and performance, including cluster sizing and autoscaling, Photon and serverless adoption, DBU usage tracking via system tables, and job reliability tuning
• Automate the provisioning, scaling, and configuration of infrastructure resources using tools like Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
• Assist the team in troubleshooting and resolving production database issues during incidents
• Monitor company services and handle alerts in a timely manner to ensure service stability and uptime
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of new features
• Design, build, and maintain internal platforms and tooling to improve operational efficiency, and support unified multi-cloud management across AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and other providers

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or a relevant domain, with over 6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, DBA, or related positions
• Proficiency in AWS distributed management, large-scale clustering, fault tolerance, backup, load balancing, and related technologies
• A deep understanding of high availability architecture, capacity planning, and rich experience in handling complex problems
• Solid Linux platform operation and maintenance capabilities, with proficiency in troubleshooting, configuration tuning, and performance analysis
• Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration and management
• Familiarity with AWS core products and rich practical experience in deployment and tuning of EC2, EKS, VPC, or big data products
• Experience with microservices architecture, including deployment, scaling, and maintenance
• Experience in monitoring, operations, and management of AWS large-scale servers and containers
• Hands-on experience with big data and machine learning platforms such as Databricks, AWS SageMaker, or Aliyun DSW, including supporting data pipelines, notebook environments, and model training and deployment workflows
• Familiarity with the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of Nginx, Kong, and similar software
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or shell for development
• Strong engineering skills and proficiency in at least one infrastructure sub-area such as public cloud networking, SRE, DevOps, or cloud-native development
• Excellent business analysis ability, system architecture ability, and problem-solving ability, combined with strong self-drive

Nice to have

• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL or big-data storage systems such as Redis, MongoDB, and HBase
• Working knowledge of Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools
• Experience with internal developer platforms and proficiency in AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code and Codex to improve engineering efficiency
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Mandarin
• Familiarity with the operation and maintenance management of Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud, and other cloud providers

What we offer

• Salary range of $214,666 to $321,999, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location
• Performance bonus and long-term incentives as part of the compensation package
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for you and your dependants
• Learning and development programs and education subsidies for your growth and development
• Wellness and meal allowances
• Various team building programs and company events
• Hybrid work arrangement

About OKX

OKX is a leading crypto exchange and developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized applications. OKX serves hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets and is backed by our Proof of Reserves commitment to safety and reliability.