Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Compensation: $165,838 – $228,028

Employment Type: FullTime

About Us

Weekend (formerly Volley) 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 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.

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), 16 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.