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Member of Technical Staff - SRE

Basis AI· Technical
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New York Office$100k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer role focused on reliability, scalability, and performance of Basis's AI-powered accounting platform. Hands-on infrastructure ownership with automation, CI/CD, and incident response in a fast-growing startup environment.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for our production systems.
  • Own cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking, optimizing for availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation to improve developer velocity and system reliability.
  • Lead incident response efforts, including on-call rotations, incident coordination, postmortems, and root cause analyses.
  • Partner closely with product and engineering teams to balance reliability, performance, cost, and speed of development.
  • Automate operational workflows such as capacity planning, safe rollouts, graceful degradation, and data access controls.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping shape the culture and standards of the infrastructure team.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language.
  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security principles.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, and modern infrastructure automation.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and taking ownership end-to-end.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Observability and incident management tools (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, BetterStack, PagerDuty, SLOs/error budgets).
  • Data and systems powering analytics and customer-facing workloads, especially in serverless environments (e.g., Neon, Modal).

Skills

Required:Site Reliability EngineeringCloud infrastructureCI/CDInfrastructure as Code

Benefits

  • Health & Wellness: Premium Medical, Dental, Vision; Life Insurance; 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health; Basis covers 100% of Wellhub Gold membership including access to gyms and wellness apps.
  • Time off: Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays.
  • In-Office Perks: Daily meal stipends, fully stocked kitchen, $300 toward custom desk setup.
  • Financial Benefits: Pre-tax commuter benefits and 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Team Culture: Monthly office activities and optional team happy hours.
  • Parental Support: Access to Carrot Fertility and paid parental leave.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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