Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA$200k - $300kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role at Salient, an AI servicing company for auto lenders. Own Salient's multi-cloud footprint (AWS, GCP, Render), drive reliability, capacity, cost attribution, and security across the platform that handles borrower conversations.
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day operation of Salient's infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render, to one consistent standard.
- Infrastructure as code: bringing resources under Terraform (or equivalent), reusable modules, consistent environments, and drift detection.
- Capacity management: forecasting demand, autoscaling, quotas, and headroom for real-time voice and AI workloads.
- Cost attribution and monitoring: tagging, allocation by product and customer, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, budgets, and anomaly alerts.
- Cost reduction: identifying, prioritizing, and shipping savings through rightsizing, commitments, cleanup, consolidation, and provider moves where justified.
- Reliability and observability of the platform, including incident response and post-mortem follow-through.
- Secure, auditable infrastructure that supports SOC 2 and customer security requirements.
Qualifications
- You've operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at meaningful scale, and you're comfortable across providers.
- You manage infrastructure as code and have brought messy, hand-built environments under control.
- You've delivered measurable cloud cost savings and can explain pricing models, commitments, and data transfer costs.
- You've planned capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads and tuned autoscaling in production.
- You build monitoring and alerting that catch problems early, and you lead incidents calmly.
- You design for least privilege, auditability, and safe change management by default.
- You favor simple, consistent systems over sophisticated ones and know what not to build.
- You write clearly and can explain cost and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, finance, and leadership.
Skills
Required:AWSGCPTerraform / IaCCost optimizationMonitoring & incident response
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- generous 401(k)
- catered lunches
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Salient
AI Servicing for Auto Lenders
Salient is an AI workflow automation tool for lenders. We're working with the largest auto lenders in America and are hiring!
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