Infrastructure Engineer - Mid to Staff Level

United States, San Francisco

1 applied

Full-time

$ 200 - 375 K /year

2 - 6 yrs

Posted on: Nov 18, 2025

No of Positions: 4

Skills

infrastructure

cloud engineering

terraform

kubernetes

yc startup

Series B

Infrastructure Engineer (Entry to Staff Level)

Position: Full-time
Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site - 5 days/week)
Experience Level: 2–6 years
Compensation: $200K–$375K (mid-level: approx. $250K–$325K; senior: $300K–$375K)
Equity: Competitive

About the Role :

We are looking for a passionate Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team and help build and operate foundational services for a large-scale, AI-driven platform. Your work will support high reliability, scalability, and performance, enabling us to serve millions of users and meet enterprise-grade infrastructure needs.

What You’ll Do :

  • Design and implement critical infrastructure services with well-defined Service Level Objectives (SLOs), robust runbooks, and actionable telemetry.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (research, product) to architect solutions, prototype infrastructure, assess performance, and scale new features.

  • Tune service performance: optimize networking paths, implement smart caching and queuing strategies, and fine-tune CPU/memory/I/O to meet tight p95 and p99 latency targets.

  • Evolve and improve CI/CD workflows, define “golden paths,” and build self-service tools to boost developer velocity and ensure platform safety.

  • Support multiple deployment architectures, ensuring customers have reliable observability and upgrade mechanisms.

  • Drive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices, primarily using Terraform, enforce GitOps workflows, reduce drift via reusable modules, and apply policy-as-code.

  • Participate in on-call rotations and continually reduce operational toil by automating repetitive tasks and preventing recurring incidents.

What We’re Looking For :

2–6 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or a closely related role.

  • Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and GitOps practices.

  • Deep understanding of monitoring, telemetry, and observability tools.

  • Proven ability to optimize system performance (networking, caching, CPU/memory/I/O).

  • Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and developer self-service platforms.

  • Hands-on with deployment architectures and operational practices for scalable, production-level systems.

  • Experience participating in on-call rotations and reducing operational burden through automation.

  • Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to partner with product and research teams.

  • Demonstrated ownership, problem-solving mindset, and drive to build for scale.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive base salary + equity.

  • Opportunity to build infrastructure for a highly scalable, AI-powered product.

  • Work in a fast-growth environment that values reliability, automation, and developer experience.

If you're passionate about building scalable, high-performance infrastructure and want to work in a startup environment with significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.

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