Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small, fast-moving team building AI-powered software products and the infrastructure behind them. You will own critical platform capabilities that help bring reliable, user-facing products from early requirements to production. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform services for user-facing products and AI workloads. - Own infrastructure initiatives from open-ended goals through architecture, implementation, launch, and ongoing improvement. - Build and maintain durable workflows, containerized services, and infrastructure automation. - Design and tune databases, including schema design, scaling, and performance optimization. - Partner with product and engineering teammates to deliver reliable systems and respond to user needs. - Use AI coding tools in your day-to-day workflow to increase development speed and effectiveness. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Typically 4 to 10 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with scope and career progression demonstrating strong ownership. - Extensive hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CDK, and production Docker workloads. - Production experience with Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestration platform. - Strong database expertise, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning; the stack includes Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse. - Experience supporting large-scale production systems or working with substantial data volumes, ideally including infrastructure for AI agents or machine learning workloads. - Startup experience, or experience combining work at a larger technology company with a startup environment. - Daily use of AI coding tools and the ability to explain your development workflow. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, United States.