Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small AI/ML product engineering team building infrastructure for user-facing software and AI-powered products. You will own core platform capabilities end to end, helping the team ship reliable services that support demanding workloads and a growing user base. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and operate cloud infrastructure and containerized services using infrastructure as code. - Develop durable workflows for long-running product and AI agent tasks. - Design, scale, and tune production databases, including services built with Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse. - Build infrastructure supporting AI agents and machine learning workloads, including long-running jobs, model routing, inference, or GPU orchestration. - Own infrastructure initiatives from architecture and data modeling through production deployment and ongoing improvement. - Use user feedback and AI coding tools to move quickly while maintaining a high standard of engineering quality. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Typically 2 to 10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with a demonstrated progression into senior, lead, or staff-level scope. - Production experience with infrastructure as code using 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 orchestration system. - Strong production database experience, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning. - Experience operating infrastructure at substantial scale or working with large volumes of data. - Startup experience or experience combining work at a larger technology company with a startup environment. - Daily use of AI coding tools, with the ability to explain your development workflow. - Experience with AI agent or machine learning infrastructure is valuable. The product stack includes TypeScript, React, and Postgres. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, United States.