Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer
- San Francisco, CA, United States
$200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
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Job details
- Pay
- $200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
- Experience
- Typically 4 to 10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with scope and career progression demonstrating strong ownership.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a small, fast-moving team building AI-powered software products and the infrastructure behind them. You will own critical platform capabilities that help bring reliable, user-facing products from early requirements to production.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform services for user-facing products and AI workloads.
- Own infrastructure initiatives from open-ended goals through architecture, implementation, launch, and ongoing improvement.
- Build and maintain durable workflows, containerized services, and infrastructure automation.
- Design and tune databases, including schema design, scaling, and performance optimization.
- Partner with product and engineering teammates to deliver reliable systems and respond to user needs.
- Use AI coding tools in your day-to-day workflow to increase development speed and effectiveness.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Typically 4 to 10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with scope and career progression demonstrating strong ownership.
- Extensive hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CDK, and production Docker workloads.
- Production experience with Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestration platform.
- Strong database expertise, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning; the stack includes Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse.
- Experience supporting large-scale production systems or working with substantial data volumes, ideally including infrastructure for AI agents or machine learning workloads.
- Startup experience, or experience combining work at a larger technology company with a startup environment.
- Daily use of AI coding tools and the ability to explain your development workflow.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, United States.