Our residential proxy network powers web scraping, automation and agentic AI companies worldwide. We support thousands of customers across 195+ countries and process 25+ billion proxy requests every month, with 252% year-on-year growth in platform sign-ups. We’ve grown to seven figures in ARR without a sales team. Now we want to go much faster. You will build the platform that Byteful runs on, and your job is to make the rest of the team (and our agents) fast. We want to ship at rocket ship speed with confidence in every change, and that only works if the infrastructure underneath is reliable, observable and safe to change. This is an internal facing role. Your customers are the engineers on our team, and you succeed when they can move quickly without worrying about the platform. The measure of this role is simple: how fast can the team ship, and how confident are they when they do.
Responsibilities
Build and develop CI pipelines such that every engineer is empowered to take their code from development to production
Build the observability and alerting pipelines to find problems before customers do and give the team confidence in what they ship
Run our Kubernetes cluster in production, owning the full management from upgrades to provisioning
Manage our fleet of bare metal nodes and cloud instances across multiple cloud providers and datacenters
Build and operate the internal tools the team relies on every day
Lead and maintain SOC 2 compliance for our infrastructure, from access reviews and change management to the evidence that backs them up, without slowing anyone down
Integrate agentic workflows and infrastructure to support agent-led software development
Willingness and availability to support on-call hours
Requirements, must have
1–5 years of experience running production infrastructure
Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, with opinions about what breaks first
Proficiency with Kubernetes and production experience, not just deployment
Experience with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
Strong networking and Linux fundamentals
Ability to take a problem from idea to implementation to monitoring, and document it so the team can operate it without you
Comfort with the ambiguity of an early stage company and ability to pick what matters without being told
Requirements, nice to have
Proficiency with Go and Python
Experience procuring IP subnets through an RIR, broker or lease, and understanding of BGP announcements
Experience using AI tools as part of your workflow
Familiarity with any of our stack: Ansible, ArgoCD, Kafka, Dragonfly, Postgres, Grafana, Tailscale, Scaleway, DigitalOcean
Working arrangement
Small in-person team in Manchester. You will be in the office with us
Salary: £36,000–£60,000 per year, negotiable based on your fit and experience
Company-wide bonus scheme
Bootstrapped and profitable. No runway clock, but no one to hand problems to either
You own real outcomes. You make decisions about the platform and live with the results
We move quickly. We prefer judgement over process and leverage over coordination
Benefits
Casual dress
Company pension
Sick pay
Requirements
Ability to commute or relocate to Manchester, Greater Manchester before starting work
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