{"id":1379720,"url":"https://alion.io/job/salient-cloud-infrastructure-engineer","title":"Cloud Infrastructure Engineer","company":{"id":1054,"name":"Salient","domain":"trysalient.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/salient","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.6,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":300000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":300000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true},{"name":"FinOps","optional":true},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"WebRTC","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-26T19:18:07Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-05T00:30:02Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":8,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":8},"description":"About Us\nSalient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. Our agents automate loan servicing, compliance, collections, recovery, insurance claims, and disputes for banks, captives, and specialty lenders.\nWe are:\nBacked by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A funding\n\nCash flow positive and profitable, with mid eight figure ARR achieved in under two years\n\nAlready serving more than 20% of the auto lending industry\n\nProcessing millions of real customer calls and transactions every day\n\nFully deployed in production with major financial institutions\n\nActively expanding into new financial services segments\n\nBuilding together in person in San Francisco\n\nWe are deeply integrated with our customers, own the full technology stack, and move quickly to bring modern AI into regulated industries where precision, reliability, and performance matter.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own Salient's cloud footprint across AWS, GCP, and Render. You will make our infrastructure consistent across providers, stay ahead of capacity as call volume and customers grow, make every dollar of cloud spend attributable, and execute on cost-cutting opportunities.\nYou will work directly with engineering, product, and company leadership. You will own outcomes, not tickets: reliability, consistency, capacity, and cost of the platform that runs every borrower conversation Salient handles.\nWhat You'll Own\nDay-to-day operation of Salient's infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render, to one consistent standard.\nInfrastructure as code: bringing resources under Terraform (or equivalent), reusable modules, consistent environments, and drift detection.\nCapacity management: forecasting demand, autoscaling, quotas, and headroom for real-time voice and AI workloads.\nCost attribution and monitoring: tagging, allocation by product and customer, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, budgets, and anomaly alerts.\nCost reduction: identifying, prioritizing, and shipping savings through rightsizing, commitments, cleanup, consolidation, and provider moves where justified.\nReliability and observability of the platform, including incident response and post-mortem follow-through.\nSecure, auditable infrastructure that supports SOC 2 and customer security requirements.\nWhat You'll Bring\nYou've operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at meaningful scale, and you're comfortable across providers.\nYou manage infrastructure as code and have brought messy, hand-built environments under control.\nYou've delivered measurable cloud cost savings and can explain pricing models, commitments, and data transfer costs.\nYou've planned capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads and tuned autoscaling in production.\nYou build monitoring and alerting that catch problems early, and you lead incidents calmly.\nYou design for least privilege, auditability, and safe change management by default.\nYou favor simple, consistent systems over sophisticated ones and know what not to build.\nYou write clearly and can explain cost and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, finance, and leadership.\nNice to Have\nExperience with real-time voice, telephony, WebRTC, or streaming systems.\nExperience running GPU or LLM inference workloads, or managing spend on hosted AI APIs.\nFinOps practice experience (e.g., cost allocation programs, FinOps certification) or experience in a regulated industry such as financial services.\nWhy This Role\nSalient runs live borrower conversations for lenders, and our infrastructure spans three providers that grew quickly alongside the business. You'll have the ownership and leverage to make it consistent, predictable, and efficient, with direct impact on reliability for customers and on the company's margins.\nAt Salient, we’re building at the edge of AI - fast, focused, and with real ownership. Sprints and major launches move quickly, and we look for people who are energized by that pace. Our team typically works around 60 hours per week, beginning at 8:00 AM, with four days spent collaborating in person at our San Francisco office.\nWe also offer a benefits package designed to support our full-time employees: medical, dental, and vision coverage, a generous 401(k), and catered lunches.\nBy applying, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4372,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Software & Embedded Finance","Debt Collection & Recovery","Financial AI"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T07:47:46Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.628,"p_room":1,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":300000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salient-cloud-infrastructure-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salient-cloud-infrastructure-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T02:43:50Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3765,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1235,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}