Overview
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at bunny.net. You’ll design and shape the global infrastructure that makes bunny.net hop. Work with bare metal and virtual servers, core internal applications like databases and internal tools, and the supporting infrastructure that ties it all together. You’ll have the autonomy to set the scope and delivery of your projects, but you’ll also thrive in collaboration, sharing knowledge, providing feedback, and tackling complex challenges.
Your work will reduce busywork, speed up global deployments, and strengthen how bunny.net runs at every level.
What will you do?
- Run and expand our hybrid infrastructure across 120+ PoPs, keeping it fast, reliable, and resilient
- Solve complex challenges in large-scale distributed systems and networking stacks
- Automate repetitive tasks, reducing toil and streamlining server setup worldwide
- Level up our monitoring with meaningful metrics, alerts, and dashboards that keep us ahead of issues
- Collaborate across teams to support new products, features, and big ideas with infrastructure expertise
- Own the systems you build, participate in a follow-the-sun on-call rotation
- Create tools and pipelines that make the team more efficient and the platform more powerful
What will you bring?
- Proven experience running large-scale, multi-regional Linux-based hybrid infrastructures
- Robust understanding of core internet building blocks like DNS, HTTP, and TLS (experience with nginx, TLS ciphers, HTTP/2)
- Bare-metal expertise from setup and operation to securing and debugging servers
- A growth mindset with eagerness to learn, adapt, and shape the future of a fast-moving technical stack, with a focus on reliability
- A love for automation and Infrastructure-as-Code to eliminate repetitive work
- Hands-on experience with monitoring systems: metrics, alerts, logs, and runbooks; familiarity with Prometheus exporters and Grafana
- Solid networking skills (VLANs, routing, TCP/IP, DHCP, IPv6)
- Experience running SQL/NoSQL databases like MariaDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, or Cassandra
- Ability to write tools and scripts in Bash, Python, or Go
What will make us extra happy?
- Experience with CDNs, edge computing, streaming platforms, or object storage projects
- Passion for observability and understanding system behavior as a whole
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and using them to drive improvements
- Hands-on network design, implementation, and monitoring (BGP, Spine-Leaf, Anycast)
- Deep experience tuning and scaling databases such as MariaDB or Cassandra in high-traffic environments
- Experience in Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity Planning
- Hardware performance tuning knowledge (NIC queues, flamegraphs, performance dashboards)
Location
Fully remote, based in New Zealand or Australia — work from where you hop best in these regions.
Benefits & Other Details
- 100% flexible hours
- Remote-first by design
- Performance-based bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off (25 vacation days, plus an extra loyalty day each year, capped at 5 years)
- Meeting-free Thursdays
- Home office budget
- Paid sick leave
- Parental leave
- Annual team meetup
- Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
- Mental health support
- Wellness budget
- Educational budget
- Music stipend
Seniority level
- Mid-Senior level
Employment type
- Full-time
Job function
- Information Technology
Industries
- Technology, Information and Internet
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📌 Senior Infrastructure Engineer
🏢 bunny.net
📍 Maitland