Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Job Description

### About the Role

Join a small AI and machine learning product team building infrastructure for user-facing products and services. You will own core infrastructure work end to end, helping the team ship reliable systems that support growing products and demanding workloads.

### What You'll Do

* Build and operate cloud infrastructure and containerized services for production workloads.

* Design durable workflows for long-running tasks and infrastructure supporting AI agents or machine learning workloads.

* Develop and improve platform capabilities across data storage, service reliability, and product infrastructure.

* Lead work from requirements and architecture through implementation, launch, and ongoing iteration.

* Collaborate closely with a small team to deliver practical solutions quickly and communicate tradeoffs clearly.

### What We're Looking For

* Two to ten years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with scope and responsibility that have progressed over time.

* Production experience managing infrastructure as code with CDK or Terraform and operating Docker-based services.

* Hands-on experience with Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestrator.

* Experience running production cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure at significant scale, or strong evidence of working with large data volumes.

* Deep production database experience, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning; the current stack includes Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse.

* Experience at a startup or a combination of large-company and startup work.

* Daily use of AI coding tools, with the ability to explain your development workflow.

* Experience building infrastructure for AI agents or machine learning workloads is a plus.

### Compensation \& Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

### Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States.