Infrastructure Engineer résumé: what employers are asking for right now
We read 144 open infrastructure engineer postings on employers' own job boards, at companies including Cloudflare, Palantir and OpenAI. Of the 97 whose requirements we have read, the skills asked for most are Python (57%), Go (29%) and Kubernetes (27%) — so those belong near the top of a infrastructure engineer résumé, in the words the posting uses. The median posting asks for 5+ years of experience.
From 144 open postings on employers’ own job boards, as of .
Skills infrastructure engineer postings ask for
| Skill | Share of postings | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 57% | |
| Go | 29% | |
| Kubernetes | 27% | |
| Distributed Systems | 26% | |
| C++ | 21% | |
| Rust | 21% | |
| Linux | 20% | |
| Terraform | 19% | |
| AWS | 14% | |
| DNS | 14% | |
| TypeScript | 14% | |
| Okta | 13% | |
| Bash | 12% | |
| Networking | 12% | |
| REST API | 12% |
Share of the 97 postings whose requirements we have read.
A skills section built from those postings
List only what you can talk about in an interview, and use the posting’s own words for it — a screener searching for “Python” will not match a synonym. Ordered by how often employers ask:
Skills
Python
Go · Kubernetes · Distributed Systems · C++ · Rust · Linux · Terraform
AWS · DNS · TypeScript · Okta · Bash · Networking · REST API
- Line 1: asked for by a third or more of postings.
- Line 2: often asked for.
- Line 3: sometimes asked for.
Sample infrastructure engineer résumé
An illustrative example, not a real person: the employers and results are made up. The skills are the ones the postings above ask for, so it shows how those requirements read on a page.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years building platform automation, service reliability, and cloud infrastructure for high-traffic systems. Works across Python, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Linux to improve deployment speed, incident response, and production stability.
Experience
Senior Infrastructure Engineer · High-growth SaaS infrastructure platform
2021 – present
- Built Kubernetes-based platform services in Go and Python, reducing cluster provisioning time from hours to minutes across three environments.
- Automated Terraform workflows for AWS and GCP, standardizing network, DNS, and IAM changes for 40+ production services.
- Improved incident response by adding SLO dashboards, runbooks, and alert tuning, cutting repeated paging by 30%.
- Implemented Okta-backed access controls and Bash automation for Linux fleets, tightening privileged access across engineering teams.
Infrastructure Engineer · Series B developer tools company
2017 – 2021
- Developed distributed systems tooling in Python and C++, improving service discovery and reducing failed deploys during peak traffic.
- Supported Kubernetes and Docker rollout for internal services, moving legacy workloads to a repeatable CI/CD release process.
- Wrote REST API integrations and TypeScript admin tooling for operational workflows, replacing manual steps in on-call tasks.
- Created networking and DNS automation with Terraform and Ansible, shortening environment setup for new teams from days to hours.
Skills
Python · Go · Kubernetes · Distributed Systems · C++ · Rust · Linux · Terraform · AWS · DNS · TypeScript · Okta
More infrastructure engineer bullet points to adapt
- Built Python automation for day-2 operations, eliminating repetitive host management tasks across hundreds of Linux instances.
- Designed Go services for internal platform control planes, improving reliability of deployment and configuration workflows.
- Migrated stateful services onto Kubernetes with safer rollout patterns, reducing production rollback frequency during releases.
- Created Terraform modules for reusable network and IAM patterns, enabling faster onboarding of new product teams.
- Hardened DNS and networking configuration for multi-region services, reducing intermittent service lookup failures.
- Added Okta integration for access provisioning and offboarding, shrinking manual account cleanup work for operations teams.
- Introduced incident response playbooks and alert thresholds, improving mean time to acknowledge for critical pages.
- Built C++ and Rust components for low-latency infrastructure paths, supporting higher throughput under sustained load.
What sets an application apart
Listed as a plus rather than a requirement: Terraform (14%), GCP (12%), Kubernetes (10%), AWS (9%), CI/CD (9%), Incident Response (9%), Ansible (8%) and GitHub Actions (7%). Worth naming if you have it, and never worth claiming if you do not.
Level, location and pay
- Most are senior roles (63% of postings that state a level).
- 22% are listed as remote.
- Listed mainly in United States, United Kingdom and India.
- US postings that publish a yearly salary: median $250k, middle half $191k–$308k (from 17 postings).
Who is hiring infrastructure engineers
- Cloudflare30 open
- Palantir14 open
- OpenAI11 open
- Zoox8 open
- Anthropic7 open
- Elastic6 open
- Lyft5 open
- Roblox5 open
- Perplexity4 open
- Braze3 open
- Fin3 open
- Fivetran3 open