Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS/Databricks)

Location: Hybrid — San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $214,666–$321,999 per year, plus potential performance bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits.

Company

OKX is a crypto exchange and developer of OKX Wallet, providing access to crypto trading and decentralized applications for individual and institutional users.

What you will do

• Maintain and configure AWS products, services, and cloud environments.
• Research, architect, and implement AWS-based infrastructure solutions, including distributed systems, large-scale clusters, and multi-cloud management across AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and other providers.
• Support the deployment, maintenance, scaling, and reliability of big data and machine learning platforms, including Databricks, AWS SageMaker, and Aliyun DSW.
• Own the Databricks platform on AWS end to end, including workspace provisioning, configuration, cluster policies, instance pools, SQL warehouses, and Terraform-based management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, while designing internal platforms and tooling for operational efficiency.
• Monitor services, respond to alerts, troubleshoot production database incidents, and collaborate with development teams on feature deployment and service stability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field, with more than 6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, DBA, or related roles.
• Proficiency in AWS distributed management, large-scale clustering, fault tolerance, backup, load balancing, and related technologies.
• Deep understanding of high-availability architecture and capacity planning, with experience handling complex technical problems.
• Strong Linux operations, maintenance, debugging, configuration tuning, and performance analysis capabilities.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration and management.
• Practical experience deploying and tuning AWS services such as EC2, EKS, VPC, or big data products.
• Experience with microservices deployment, scaling, and maintenance, as well as monitoring and managing large-scale AWS servers and containers.
• Hands-on experience with big data or machine learning platforms such as Databricks, AWS SageMaker, or Aliyun DSW, including data pipelines, notebook environments, and model training or deployment workflows.
• Familiarity with Nginx, Kong, and similar software deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or shell for development.
• Strong engineering, business analysis, system architecture, and problem-solving skills, with proficiency in at least one infrastructure area such as public cloud networking, SRE, DevOps, or cloud-native technologies.
• Experience with internal developer platforms and AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
• Strong self-drive.

Nice to have

• Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL and NoSQL or big-data storage systems such as Redis, MongoDB, or HBase.
• Working knowledge of Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Mandarin.
• Familiarity with Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Cloud, and other cloud providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in San Jose, California.
• Competitive total compensation package with potential performance bonus and long-term incentives.
• Learning and development programs and education subsidy.
• Team-building programs and company events.
• Wellness and meal allowances.
• Comprehensive healthcare schemes for employees and dependants.