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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Traversal· Engineering
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New York$175k - $300kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing, securing, and operating core systems powering Traversal’s AI products, with a focus on Terraform-defined infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and highly available, cost-efficient platforms.

Responsibilities

  • System Design & Architecture: Design scalable, reliable infrastructure for AI workloads, inference, data pipelines, and agentic workflows
  • CI/CD: Build and deliver best-in-class developer experience and software development lifecycle tooling for our growing engineering team
  • Autoscaling: Scale on real signals (queue lag, in-flight requests, latency); add burst capacity and safe drains
  • Infrastructure as Code: Evolve Terraform+Helm for multi-environment deployments, secrets, policy-as-code, and workload identity
  • Observability: Build and deliver end-to-end visibility into our infrastructure, systems, and applications, and connect it to Traversal’s AI SRE agent for self-driving production
  • Security: Partner with our cloud security lead to improve Traversal’s security and compliance posture, implementing least privilege principles, JIT access workflows, default-deny egress, auditability, and policy-as-code

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience at technically rigorous companies or teams
  • Proven experience operating cloud and Kubernetes native infrastructure and applications at scale with >99.9% availability
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Terraform, Helm
  • Experience designing idempotent systems (outbox, dedupe keys, safe replay)
  • Incident response, chaos testing, capacity planning
  • Strong debugging skills across infrastructure, compute, network, runtime, storage, and auth layers

Skills

Required:AWSEKSTerraformHelmKubernetesSecurity

Benefits

  • competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits
  • U.S. base salary range for this role in New York is $175,000–$300,000, plus equity and benefits
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Traversal

The only AI SRE for the enterprise

Traversal cuts through alert noise, surfaces root causes, and guides your team to remediation — so incidents get fixed in minutes, not hours.

AISREcomplex systemsalertingroot cause analysisincident preventionenterprise
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