Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small, fast-moving AI product team to build and operate the infrastructure behind user-facing products and core SaaS capabilities. You will take ownership of foundational systems that support reliable services, durable workflows, and products used at significant scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and operate cloud infrastructure for production services, using infrastructure as code and containerized workloads. - Develop durable workflows and backend systems that support long-running product and AI workloads. - Design, scale, and tune databases, including schema design and performance improvements. - Own infrastructure initiatives from architecture and implementation through production launch and ongoing iteration. - Partner with product and engineering teammates to turn open-ended goals into reliable, scalable systems. - Use AI coding tools as part of your daily engineering workflow. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Two to ten years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with demonstrated progression into senior, lead, or staff-level scope. - Production experience with infrastructure as code such as CDK or Terraform, Docker, and a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure. - Hands-on experience with Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestrator. - Deep production database experience, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning; relevant technologies include Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse. - Experience supporting substantial user or data scale, ideally in a startup or growth-stage environment. - Daily use of AI coding tools and the ability to explain how they fit into your workflow. - Experience building infrastructure for AI agents or machine learning workloads is a plus. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, United States.