Senior Infrastructure Engineer
About Us
Weekend is the leading developer of voice AI games for smart TVs. Our games attract millions of users every month, with family favorites like Jeopardy!, Song Quiz, CoComelon: Sing and Play with JJ, and Wheel of Fortune.
We believe voice interfaces will become the main way people access entertainment in their living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and cars. We’re building a bundled subscription product similar to Netflix or Spotify for the emerging category of “AI-powered games.”
Weekend was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2024. The founders went through Y Combinator in 2018 and landed a spot on the 2022 YC Top Companies List. We’re a quickly-growing team headquartered in Union Square, San Francisco.
Role Summary
Weekend is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to ensure the stability, security, and scalability of our infrastructure as our AI gaming platform grows. You'll own our Kubernetes cluster, lead security improvements, drive infrastructure automation and best practices, administer AWS accounts, and serve as the primary infrastructure partner for our software engineering teams. This is a foundational role — you'll directly enable Weekend's game teams to move fast without compromising reliability.
This job opportunity offers a hybrid work arrangement, and we are specifically seeking candidates who are comfortable with on-site attendance in our Bay Area office 3 times per week and are either currently residing in or near the Bay Area or willing to relocate for on-site work.
What You’ll Do at Weekend
Manage and ensure the stability of Weekend's Kubernetes cluster (EKS)
Audit and enhance our infrastructure security posture, including secrets management and secure-by-default design
Lead the adoption of infrastructure best practices through automation and internal education
Administer Weekend's AWS account(s), including IAM, networking, cost management, and cloud resource governance across all environments
Empower software engineers to manage their own infrastructure through self-service tooling and robust documentation
Pair with software engineers to solve their day-to-day infrastructure problems
Define a proactive security strategy that bakes best practices into the developer workflow
Develop an infrastructure strategy for our AI initiative
We're Excited About You Because You Have:
6+ years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or cloud engineering roles
Proven experience administering large numbers of remote machines (Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, Ansible)
Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal tools that make engineering teams more productive
Strong security fundamentals: secrets management, threat modeling, and secure-by-default design
Experience managing build automation (Travis, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions)
A track record of operating in fast-moving environments with rapid product iteration
High ownership mentality — you treat infrastructure problems as your problems to solve
Deep user empathy — you build for the developers who depend on your systems
Bonus Points:
Experience with modern NodeJS, JVM, or similar modern runtimes
Background working on large-scale gaming or consumer platforms
Experience with observability tooling (e.g., DataDog)
Our Stack
AWS
Kubernetes on EKS
GitOps (FluxCD)
Terraform
AWS GameLift Streams
GitHub Actions
DataDog
TypeScript/NodeJS
React
Unity
The Hiring Process
Stage 1 (Recruiter Screen): 30-minute call with a member of our recruiting team
Stage 2 (Manager Screen + Technical Round): 45 minute call with the hiring manager and a 60min live technical session with the engineering team
Stage 3 (Onsite): Panel interviews with various team members
Stage 4 (Founders Chat): Conversation with our founders
As an AI company, we’re a huge believer in the value of AI tools. That being said, the interview process is intended as a conversation - we want to get to know you and your experience. Please refrain from using AI tools during all Weekend interviews unless otherwise specified.
What’s in it for You
Your medical, dental, and vision insurance is 100% covered by Weekend, for yourself and all dependents and we match 401k!
We offer a flexible, hybrid work-from-home and in-office work model.
We offer unlimited paid time off (enforced 2-week minimum), 14 paid holidays, 40 hours of bereavement leave, and unlimited sick days.
Our generous parental leave policy includes 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parents and 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parents.
We offer visa support for eligible candidates, making relocating for the job smoother and more streamlined.
A full breakdown of our benefits is here!
For Pay Transparency: The final offer amount may depend on experience, education, skills, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work.
Weekend is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Weekend will ensure that persons are provided reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process. If any reasonable accommodation is needed, please reach out to your hiring contact.