Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

What You’ll Do

As our Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll design, build, and own the cloud infrastructure that powers zaimler’s semantic platform. This isn’t a maintenance role. It’s a foundational build-from-scratch position, shaping choices we’ll live with for years.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Scale Infra: Design and deploy secure, fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure across AWS/Azure/GCP, using Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern IaC tools.
• Enable Distributed AI Workloads: Build and optimize compute systems for distributed frameworks like Ray and Kafka, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• GPU Orchestration: Manage GPU resources and scheduling for ML inference, retrieval, and training workloads.
• Drive Observability & Reliability: Implement monitoring, security, and best practices for high-availability ML/AI systems.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work hand-in-hand with ML researchers and data scientists to ensure infra accelerates, not hinders, development.

Who We’re Looking For

• We’re open to multiple levels of seniority (3-10+ years of engineering experience). What matters most is founder mindset + strong infra chops.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes + Terraform (real-world deployments, not just exposure).
• Experience with distributed systems (Ray, Dask, Spark, or similar).
• Exposure to Kafka or equivalent MQ systems.
• Strong programming/scripting in Python, Go, or similar.
• Track record of building or operating production-grade infra.

Nice to Haves

• GPU scheduling/optimization experience.
• Prior startup/early-stage build-from-scratch experience.
• Experience supporting ML/AI workloads in production.
• Founder Traits
• Excited to own infra end-to-end as the first dedicated hire.
• Comfort with ambiguity; thrives in fast-moving, collaborative teams.
• Curiosity + grit: hungry to learn where gaps exist.

Why Join

• A rare chance to be a founding engineer shaping both company and product direction.
• Competitive salary, benefits, and meaningful equity.
• Work alongside engineers and researchers from LinkedIn, Visa, Meta, and Branch.
• Onsite culture in San Mateo, designed for deep collaboration and high-velocity building.
• We offer competitive compensation, equity, full benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k)
• We sponsor H-1B visas and assist with immigration processes