Infrastructure Engineer
SF Headquarters$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Infrastructure Engineer to architect and own Salient's scalable infrastructure, defining reliability, scalability, and developer velocity across the stack to support high-volume financial transactions and customer interactions.
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural decisions and technical reviews for infrastructure-critical initiatives.
- Design, build, and own the cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) that runs Salient, from compute and networking to storage and observability.
- Develop scalable harnesses that enable coding agents to operate reliably without compromising system stability or code quality.
- Partner closely with the modeling team to optimize the serving and performance of GPU-intensive workloads.
- Drive reliability and performance across the stack by defining SLOs, building robust monitoring and alerting, and leading incident response and postmortems.
- Own developer platform investments that materially improve engineering velocity, including CI/CD, deployment tooling, environments, and internal infrastructure abstractions.
- Establish infrastructure best practices, patterns, and standards as a technical authority across the engineering org.
- Identify and reduce technical debt across infrastructure systems, with a focus on long-term scalability and operational health.
Qualifications
- 2-8 years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years at the senior or staff level in infrastructure/platform roles, working on large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) - compute, networking, storage, IAM, and cost optimization.
- Expert in infrastructure-as-code, with a strong track record of building scalable automation systems.
- Extensive experience owning and scaling Kubernetes and CI/CD systems in high-throughput, production environments.
- Track record of building and operating high-availability, high-throughput distributed systems with mature observability practices.
- Strong technical communication - able to document architecture clearly and influence engineering decisions across teams.
Skills
Required:Software engineeringCloud platforms (AWS or GCP)Infrastructure as codeKubernetesCI/CDObservability
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- generous 401(k)
- catered lunches
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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