Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 5, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 30, 2026.
About the Role
Join a small AI and machine learning product team as a staff-level infrastructure engineer. You will build and operate reliable cloud infrastructure that supports AI agent workloads and user-facing products at scale.
What You'll Do
Build and operate production cloud infrastructure and containerized services using infrastructure as code.
Develop durable workflows for long-running product and AI agent tasks.
Design, scale, and tune databases that support core product capabilities.
Build infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads, including model routing, inference, and GPU orchestration.
Partner with product and engineering colleagues to deliver dependable platform capabilities and improve them in production.
Use AI coding tools as part of your daily engineering workflow.
What We're Looking For
Four to ten years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with a record of increasing responsibility and progression beyond senior-level scope.
Production experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CDK, Docker, and a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Hands-on experience operating Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestration system in production.
Experience running cloud infrastructure for a product with more than one million users.
Strong production database skills, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning; relevant technologies include Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse.
Startup experience or a combination of big technology company and startup experience.
Daily use of AI coding tools and the ability to explain how they fit into your workflow.
Experience building infrastructure for AI agents or machine learning workloads is valuable.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, United States.