Job DescriptionWhat You'll Do - Serve as the founding infrastructure engineer, building the core platform that scales the company and raises the reliability bar.
- Establish secure, repeatable IaC/GitOps patterns (Terraform/CloudFormation) and automated delivery (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Partner with teams pre-GA on design reviews, capacity planning, and readiness.
- Define and drive SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and an error-budget culture for services and ops.
- Eliminate toil with end-to-end automation across provisioning, config, testing, and operations.
- Co-design platforms with ML, backend, and security to safely power AI/ML workloads.
- Architect multi-region resilience-backup, DR, and failover-balancing availability, consistency, and cost.
- Advance observability and incident excellence; make smart bets on emerging infra tools.
- Codify production engineering standards and coach teams toward operational excellence.
Desired Skills and ExperienceWhat You Bring to the Table - 8+ years operating high-availability, fault-tolerant distributed systems with IaC and GitOps.
- Strong coding in Go/Python/Rust plus solid shell skills; comfortable extending Kubernetes via CRDs.
- Deep Kubernetes/EKS expertise; mastery of containerization and service networking.
- Hands-on with AWS primitives (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, RDS) and multi-region traffic/failover.
- Observability pro (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Jaeger) with strong RCA/incident chops.
- Security fundamentals: IAM, secrets management, and compliance guardrails (SOC2/HIPAA/GDPR).
- Experience building secure, self-service platforms (SDKs/APIs/portals, e.g., Backstage/TypeScript).
- Proven SRE practice-SLIs/SLOs, error budgets-and strong testing, reviews, and CI/CD habits.
- Clear communicator and mentor who thrives in fast-moving environments and collaborates across ML, data, and backend teams.
Our job descriptions often reflect our ideal candidate. If you have a strong foundation of relevant skills and a passion for this field, we encourage you to apply, even if you don't check every box.
What We Offer - High Impact - Ship real features in weeks, not quarters
- Cutting-Edge Tech - Work to solve problems no one has cracked before.
- Remote & Flexible - Work from anywhere with a culture built on trust, autonomy, and balance.
- Growth & Ownership - Own features end-to-end, learn rapidly, and grow with the company as we scale.
- Top-Tier Compensation - Competitive salary, performance bonuses, equity upside, and strong benefits.
- Team & Culture - Small, senior team that values collaboration, creativity, and building something meaningful together.
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401k with Employer Contributions
- Paid Time Off & Birthday Leave
- Health Savings Account (HSA) Contributions with High Deductible Health Plan
- Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
- And more!
Compensation Range - $180,000 - $200,000 base
- $50,000 - $60,000 variable compensation
Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level. The pay ratio between base pay and target incentive (if applicable) will be finalized at the offer stage.
