Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

About Dutchie

Founded in 2017, Dutchie is a comprehensive technology platform powering dispensary operations, while providing consumers with safe and easy access to cannabis. Dutchie aims to further support the positive societal change the cannabis industry brings to the world through wellness benefits, social justice, and empowering local communities through tax revenue. Powering thousands of dispensaries across 40+ markets throughout the United States and Canada, Dutchie is the leading technology company in the cannabis space and was named in Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in North America and listed two years in a row on LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups.

Dutchie has raised over $600M in funding to date, backed by D1 Capital Partners, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DFJ Growth, Thrive Capital, Howard Schultz, Snoop Dogg’s Casa Verde Capital, Gron Ventures, members of the founding team at DoorDash, Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures, and other notable angel investors.

About the Role

We're seeking a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer to take ownership of our EKS infrastructure and serve as the technical leader for our cloud platform initiatives. In this role, you'll be instrumental in standardizing our multi-cluster application deployments, mentoring engineering teams, and shaping the future of our infrastructure at Dutchie.

What You'll Do...

• Own and evolve our EKS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability across multiple clusters

• Drive standardization of multi-cluster application deployment patterns and best practices

• Serve as subject matter expert for cloud infrastructure, providing technical leadership and guidance across engineering teams

• Educate and mentor engineers on Kubernetes, AWS, and cloud-native technologies

• Design and implement infrastructure solutions that balance performance, cost, and security

• Collaborate cross-functionally with development teams to optimize application deployment and operations

• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using modern tooling to ensure reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure

• Implement security best practices across our cloud environment, including network policies, IAM configurations, and compliance requirements

What You Bring...

• Deep Kubernetes expertise, with hands-on experience managing production EKS clusters at scale

• Strong AWS knowledge, particularly in EKS, IAM, VPCs, security groups, and AWS networking concepts

• Solid Linux fundamentals, including systems administration, troubleshooting, and performance optimization

• Containerization proficiency with Docker and container orchestration patterns

• Infrastructure as code experience with Pulumi or Terraform

• Programming skills in Python or Go, with the ability to write production-quality automation and tooling

• Security mindset with experience implementing cloud security best practices

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field, or equivalent experience.

• At least 5 years of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and compute platforms.

It's a Bonus if You...

• Experience with service mesh technologies like Linkerd or Istio

• GitOps workflow experience (ArgoCD, Flux)

• Experience with Cloudflare, especially Cloudflare Workers

• Observability and monitoring tools expertise (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

• Open source contributions to cloud-native projects

• Experience with cost optimization in cloud environments

You’ll Get…

We are targeting a starting salary of $149,000 - $200,000 based on the intended level for this role
In addition to cash compensation, our total rewards package includes:

• Full medical benefits including dental and vision plans to ensure you always have the best care.

• Equity packages in the form of stock options to all employees.

• Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance

• Flexible vacation and sick days

At Dutchie, we’re committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Dutchie believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.