Associate Platform Infrastructure Engineer

🏢 Impact · 📍 Cape Town
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

 

Your Role at impact.com:

You'll join the Shared Services and Infrastructure team at a critical growth moment for impact.com. As we scale toward 600+ product engineers, the platform infrastructure layer - Kubernetes clusters, VPCs, compute, storage, shared services -is becoming mission-critical. This is a solid starting point for someone who wants to grow into platform and infrastructure engineering. You'll work closely with senior engineers on the team, implementing infrastructure abstractions, deploying platform services, and learning how production systems work at scale. You'll write production-quality Java code, operate real infrastructure, and contribute to making sure 600+ developers have a reliable foundation to build on. If you want hands-on experience with Kubernetes, cloud architecture and building reliable systems, this is the role.

What You'll Do:

  • Implement platform infrastructure abstractions that service teams use to express their requirements: translating high-level requests into IaC parameters and production-grade deployments.
  • Deploy and operate platform-layer infrastructure: VPCs, compute pools, storage, Kubernetes clusters and the networking that connects them, using IaC m
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Impact Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Measuring aggressive commercial drive, partnership ecosystem expertise, and relentless focus on measurable ROI.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Focusing purely on relationship-building while ignoring quantitative performance metrics
  • 2. Lack of familiarity with modern partnership and affiliate tech stacks
  • 3. Passive approach to pipeline generation and deal closing
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I treat partnership ecosystems as high-performance revenue engines, consistently scaling channel contribution through rigorous data tracking.

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