Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud and Reliability (AI Software)

A growing AI software company needs a hands-on staff engineer to take charge of the live infrastructure that runs its AI products. The scope covers dependability, speed and spend, plus setting the standard for how a fast-scaling platform stays dependable.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the AWS architecture that runs the products
• Operate production databases, including sizing, replication and recovery
• Establish expectations for uptime and quality on a rapidly expanding platform
• Advise the team on early infrastructure choices such as languages and databases worth investing in
• Cut latency and cost, and support real-time, latency-sensitive workloads

Qualifications

• Eight or more years as an infrastructure, SRE or DevOps engineer, ideally as a founding or early infrastructure hire at a startup
• Experience building cloud infrastructure from the ground up, provisioning it yourself
• Deep AWS expertise and production PostgreSQL tuning
• A record of measurable latency or cost reductions
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Daily use of AI coding tools, or willingness to learn them

Hybrid in the South Bay Area (Silicon Valley), with on-site days as needed. Visa transfers considered.