# Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About HUD HUD 's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. We want data to be valuable for the people who create it and trustworthy for the labs that train on it. Our team is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers and operators building the economy that shapes what AI will become. Backed by $16M from top VCs and YC (W25), our marketplace and platform are used by startups, Fortune 500 companies and frontier labs. About the role We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure who can own the reliability, scale, performance, and developer experience of HUD’s core infrastructure and backend systems. This is not a pure infrastructure role. The right person has strong production infra experience, but also thinks like a backend engineer: they can reason about service architecture, queues, databases, APIs, deployment safety, performance bottlenecks, and how product requirements translate into resilient systems. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and backend services to make HUD faster, more reliable, cheaper to run, and easier for engineers to build on. Responsibilities Own production uptime, latency, p

- **Id**: 984322
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hud-senior-software-engineer-infrastructure>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Singapore
- **Countries**: US, SG
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T19:09:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:40:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5566
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: AI Training Data & Annotation, Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms

## Company

- **Id**: 678875
- **Name**: HUD
- **Domain**: hud.so
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hud-3>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 105000
- **Max**: 260000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 260000

## Technologies

- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Singapore** — Iso: SG; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T22:55:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 32; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 32 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.369
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:56, stale_co, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 260000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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