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The scope spans compute, storage, deployment, data pipelines, indexing, and retrieval. You will make these systems observable and dependable across cloud and self-hosted environments while helping the engineering team ship quickly.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nBuild and operate reliable infrastructure across sandboxes, clusters, databases, caches, vector databases, and object storage.\n\nImprove deployment and upgrade systems for cloud and self-hosted environments.\n\nBuild observability, incident response, performance, and capacity systems for production services.\n\nImprove continuous integration, delivery, and developer workflows.\n\nBuild integrations, indexing pipelines, and retrieval infrastructure that make enterprise knowledge useful to agents.\n\nStrengthen platform security through isolation, access controls, hardening, testing, and compliance work.\n\nOwn systems from architecture and implementation through production operation and long-term improvement.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\nStrong systems fundamentals: You reason clearly about reliability, performance, security, data consistency, and failure modes.\n\nProduction ownership: You are comfortable operating the systems you build and improving them based on real incidents and usage.\n\nPragmatic engineering judgment: You can balance immediate product needs with the foundations required for long-term scale.\n\nHigh agency: You can find the highest-leverage infrastructure problem, create a plan, and drive it to completion.\n\nSecurity-minded thinking: You treat sensitive data, access controls, isolation, and auditability as core design constraints.\n\nClear collaborators: You make infrastructure understandable and work closely with product and AI engineers.\n\nNICE TO HAVE\nYou have built and operated cloud infrastructure or distributed systems at meaningful scale.\n\nYou have experience with self-hosted enterprise deployments, security programs, or regulated data.\n\nYou have worked on search, retrieval, data integration, or large-scale indexing systems.\n\nYou have led production incidents and made systems more resilient afterward.\n\nYou have worked in a high-growth early-stage company.\n\nYou are familiar with parts of our stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Python, Postgres, Azure, AWS.\n\nBENEFITS\nCompetitive compensation, including meaningful equity.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents.\n\nGenerous PTO policy.\n\nPaid parental leave.\n\nAt Valkai, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. 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