Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI infrastructure team as its founding cloud infrastructure engineer. You will build the production cloud foundation for a platform that helps organizations provide reliable, governed context to AI systems. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and build cloud infrastructure from the ground up, taking systems from initial architecture through deployment and scale. - Make foundational decisions about cloud architecture and establish infrastructure standards and best practices. - Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code solutions. - Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and logging systems. - Design and maintain secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Approximately 5 to 12 years of experience, including at least 5 years building and operating production cloud infrastructure. - Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, storage, compute, and managed services. - Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms. - Experience implementing infrastructure as code with Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or similar tools. - Background building and operating cloud or data infrastructure, with experience in CI/CD, observability, security, and access control. - Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale. - Comfort making architectural decisions and building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable employment history. - Experience with data pipelines, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI and machine learning infrastructure is beneficial. - Seeking full-time employment. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Mateo, California, United States.