Pipeline Engineer (worldwide remote, work anywhere)

CloudLinux is a global remote-first company delivering high-volume, low-cost Linux infrastructure and security products. Imunify360 Security Suite is a product of CloudLinux Inc., designed for shared and VPS/Dedicated servers providing multi-layer security. CloudLinux serves more than 4,000 customers with over 500,000 product installations.

• Over 5 years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience building and operating multi-stage data or automation pipelines (CI/CD, ETL/ELT, job orchestration, ML/data platforms).
• Deep knowledge in at least one of Python, Go, or Rust.
• Expertise in systems design focusing on reliability and correctness.
• Practical experience with workflow orchestration/job scheduling tools (e.g., Airflow, Temporal, Prefect, Dagster, Argo).
• Strong background in reliability engineering concepts such as idempotency, retries, checkpointing, graceful degradation, and backpressure.
• Hands-on observability experience with **Prometheus/**Grafana or equivalent, able to design metrics.
• Extensive CI/CD experience, especially with GitLab CI, including dynamic pipelines and self-hosted runners.
• Experience with object storage (S3/Ceph) and large-scale analytical stores such as ClickHouse.
• Proficient in designing state machines and managing concurrency in long-running processes.
• Excellent debugging skills across system, network, and data layers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in distributed teams.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Nice to have:

• Experience with progressive delivery techniques including canary deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback.
• Experience operating AI/LLM systems in production, including cost control and token accounting.
• Experience with fleet-scale telemetry and building quality gates based on noisy production data.
• Familiarity with WordPress, PHP, or WAF/ModSecurity concepts.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Salt and Linux service operations.

• Design, build, and operate end-to-end automated protection pipelines.
• Transform fragile batch jobs into resilient, idempotent, and observable systems.
• Define and enforce latency budgets and service level objectives (SLOs).
• Build observability layers including metrics, dashboards, alerting, and health gates.
• Design and implement guardrails such as automatic rollbacks, blast-radius limits, and safe fallback behaviors.
• Reduce manual operational interventions and increase system maintainability.
• Write and maintain unit and integration tests for complex concurrency and failure scenarios.
• Investigate and resolve issues across ClickHouse, GitLab CI, S3/object storage, Prometheus/Grafana, and third-party APIs.
• Collaborate with security analysts and server teams on architecture and production safety.