Infrastructure Engineer - Member of Technical Staff
Simile· Engineering
San Francisco$200k - $400kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing and operating multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) with a focus on security, reliability, and scale. Owns the infrastructure roadmap, enables engineering velocity, and ensures compliance with SOC2/HIPAA through secure, IaC-driven practices.
Responsibilities
- Architect Multi-Cloud Environments: Design and scale multi-region architectures across AWS and GCP to support global data residency and failover requirements.
- Enable Engineering Velocity: Partner cross-functionally with Product Engineering, Research, and Security teams to build internal tooling and "paved paths" that accelerate development velocity and empower every engineer to ship with confidence.
- Own Enterprise Connectivity: Build and automate secure networking solutions, including VPC peering, PrivateLink, and dedicated interconnects for customer-managed environments.
- Drive Reliability: Set and maintain strict SLOs. You’ll optimize networking paths and resource allocation to ensure our real-time AI features hit their latency targets.
- Champion GitOps: Manage our entire stack via Terraform/Pulumi; ensuring that "the code is the truth" across all environments.
- Security & Compliance: Implement "security-by-design," focusing on encryption at rest/transit and identity management (SAML/SCIM) to meet SOC2 and HIPAA standards.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building production-grade infrastructure in a high-growth environment.
- Cloud Polyglot: Deep expertise in AWS is required; experience with GCP or Azure is a major plus.
- Networking Guru: Deep understanding of DNS, Load Balancing, Service Meshes, and complex VPC routing.
- IaC Architect: Proven track record managing large-scale environments using Terraform, Pulumi, or other production-ready, battle-tested IaC tools with a focus on reusable, modular infrastructure.
- Operational Mindset: Experience with modern observability (Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and a "you build it, you run it" mentality.
- Communication: Ability to write clear technical specs for both internal teams and external customers.
Skills
Required:AWSNetworkingTerraformObservabilitySecurity & ComplianceGitOps
Nice to have:GCPPulumi
Benefits
- Salary Range: $200,000 – $400,000 USD
- Equity: Grants are available for eligible roles, subject to board approval.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Time Off: Flexible time off policies to support work-life balance.
Last updated Oct 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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