Senior Software Engineer — Infrastructure
CrooterAbout the role
🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Software Engineer — Infrastructure | Motion
Are you an experienced Infrastructure / Backend Engineer who loves solving complex scaling problems and wants to have a major impact at an AI-native startup?
We’re working with Motion, an AI-powered creative strategy platform helping marketers analyze ads, track competitors, research trends, and make smarter creative decisions.
💼 Senior Software Engineer — Infrastructure
📍 Fully Remote — US, Canada & Western Europe
💰 $250K–$325K+ base + competitive equity
🏢 Series B | $42M raised | ~60 employees
What You’ll Own
Build infrastructure application code, not just configuration
Own VM lifecycle, containers, queues, observability, security, and runtime systems
Scale from ~500 to 2,000–3,000+ customer environments
Design reliable abstractions for messaging, locks, background jobs, and service-bus mechanics
Establish scalable Pulumi / IaC patterns
Work deeply across Linux, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and persistent storage
Help architect infrastructure supporting Motion’s rapidly expanding AI platform
🔎 What We’re Looking For
6+ years of experience owning core infrastructure
Strong production software engineering experience (~60% backend / 40% infrastructure)
Experience with Node.js / TypeScript
Strong Docker + Kubernetes expertise
Infrastructure-as-Code experience: Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, etc.
Deep cloud experience — Azure preferred
Strong systems, networking, Linux, and debugging skills
Experience in an AI-native or high-growth startup environment
Excellent communication skills
Experience building isolated, per-customer environments at scale is a strong plus
🌟 Why Motion?
This is an opportunity to join a small, high-caliber engineering team at a pivotal scaling stage. You’ll be solving infrastructure problems that don't have an established playbook and will have significant ownership over architectural decisions.
Motion’s platform already analyzes $11B+ in annual media spend, and the engineering team is preparing for significant growth in customer environments and workflows.
If you're interested in AI infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud architecture, and high-ownership engineering, this could be an exciting opportunity.
📩 Interested? DM me with your LinkedIn profile or resume, and I’ll share the details and next steps.
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Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure application code, not just configuration
- Own VM lifecycle, containers, queues, observability, security, and runtime systems
- Scale from ~500 to 2,000–3,000+ customer environments
- Design reliable abstractions for messaging, locks, background jobs, and service-bus mechanics
- Establish scalable Pulumi / IaC patterns
- Work deeply across Linux, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and persistent storage
- Help architect infrastructure supporting Motion’s rapidly expanding AI platform
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience owning core infrastructure
- Strong production software engineering experience (~60% backend / 40% infrastructure)
- Experience with Node.js / TypeScript
- Strong Docker + Kubernetes expertise
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience: Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, etc.
- Deep cloud experience — Azure preferred
- Strong systems, networking, Linux, and debugging skills
- Experience in an AI-native or high-growth startup environment
Benefits
- Competitive equity
Skills mentioned
About Crooter
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