Cloud Engineer

About Arena:

Arena is a Series A company backed by top-tier investors such as CRV, Redpoint and Craft Ventures. Arena offers a unique work environment and the chance to collaborate with diverse teammates across multiple countries, with a culture of ownership (autonomy, growth, and responsibility). 

We are a startup created in Silicon Valley with a mission to build communities for creators, publishers and brands with the power of AI. Companies using Arena include Disney, Reuters, Fox, Red Bull and NFL. We have +2,000 customers in 150 countries and with +50M users having conversations on Arena per month and engaging with our Agent AI.

Sometimes you're stuck in a job that doesn't make sense. Refactoring code from ages ago, the stack is miles away from what it's supposed to be. If you love a good challenge, enjoy solving meaningful problems, and want to be a part of one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the Silicon Valley — then Arena is the company you're looking for.

The challenges:

• Real-time messaging infrastructure supporting 100,000 concurrent users per customer application;
• High performance systems with API responses in the 10ms range;
• Highly scalable architecture using auto-scaling policies, distributed systems and container orchestration;
• High availability infrastructure powering homepages of some of the most visited websites and apps on the internet;
• Managing distributed databases for our Data Platform storing every user engagement;
• Building infrastructure that enables product teams to ship fast with reliability and observability.

Our Stack:

• AWS;
• DigitalOcean;
• Terraform;
• Docker;
• GitHub & GitHub Actions;
• Node;
• React;
• TypeScript;
• Vercel;
• Datadog;
• CloudWatch;
• Kong API Gateway;
• Cloudflare;
• Varnish.

Work Experience:

• 3–5 years of relevant DevOps / Infrastructure / SRE experience.

  Must-Have Experience:

  • AWS infrastructure experience with:
    • ECS (Fargate);
    • Lambda;
    • RDS (PostgreSQL);
    • DocumentDB (MongoDB compatible);