Infrastructure Engineer
Oakland, CA (or remote within US timezones)$185k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Infrastructure-focused role owning and evolving Elicit’s cloud, observability, security/compliance, and cost-management to support enterprise, single-tenant deployments and growing customer demand.
Responsibilities
- Own our cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP — Kubernetes clusters, networking, databases (Aurora PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB Atlas), Cloudflare, and our CI/CD pipeline.
- Scale single-tenant deployments from a handful to many — each with distinct data retention, geographic, monitoring, and compliance requirements. Make a private cloud deployment a repeatable, low-overhead operation.
- Build our observability and incident response practice — proactive monitoring, alerting, SLA tracking, and structured post-mortems that make the whole team better at diagnosing and resolving issues.
- Drive compliance and security operations — ensure we follow through on the policies we've written (SOC 2, NIST AI framework, EU Cyber Resilience). Own disaster recovery exercises, database restoration drills, and security event monitoring (SIEM).
- Manage infrastructure cost and capacity — make smart decisions about where we run workloads (AWS, CoreWeave, Parasail), optimize spend, and plan capacity as usage grows.
- Improve developer experience — CI/CD pipeline performance, preview environments, local development tooling, and deployment confidence.
- Contribute to backend systems where infrastructure and application intersect — circuit breakers, inference routing, data connector infrastructure for enterprise customers bringing their own data.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on infrastructure/SRE/platform engineering experience.
- An AI-native way of working. Agentic coding tools are used to write IaC and investigate incidents; enthusiastic about using AI to multiply impact.
Skills
Required:TerraformKubernetesAWSGitOps/CI-CDSRE & ObservabilitySecurity & ComplianceSoftware/Writing code
Benefits
- Flexible work environment: Oakland office or remote with time zone overlap; quarterly in-person offsites.
- Fully covered health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you, plus generous coverage for family (FSA/HSA).
- Flexible vacation policy with a minimum of 20 days/year and company holidays.
- $200 monthly wellbeing stipend.
- 401K with 6% employer match.
- Mac computer and $1,000 workstation budget in first year, then $500/year.
- $1,000 quarterly AI Experimentation & Learning budget.
- Team administrative assistant.
- Additional reasons here: Twitter thread link included (external reference).
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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