Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$300,000–$430,000 year
On-site · San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$300,000–$430,000 yearSenior LevelNot SpecifiedAI SoftwareStartup
Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Startup
Industry
AI Software
Job Summary
Design, build, and operate production infrastructure for high-scale, low-latency systems. Own critical services end-to-end, improve reliability and performance, and create paved paths for engineers. Required skills include strong knowledge of infrastructure, SLO management, observability tools, and incident response processes. Experience in building scalable infrastructure and a solid understanding of multiple systems within infrastructure engineering is necessary.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale
- Depth in at least one area across Core/Data/AI‐ML/Platform/Voice
- Proven track record meeting high availability and low latency targets
- Excellent observability chops (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog)
- Clear written communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience being an early backend/platform/infrastructure engineer at another company
- Strong Kubernetes experience (GKE/EKS/AKS)
- Experience across multiple cloud providers (GCP, AWS, and Azure)
- Experience with customer‐managed deployments
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