Staff Infrastructure Engineer
SalientAI Loan company
San Francisco, United StatesLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Matrix Partners
Y Combinator
General Catalyst
Michael Ovitz
Gallery Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Architect and own the systems that power Salient at scale.
- •We're looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to architect and own the systems that power Salient at scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead architectural decisions and technical reviews for infrastructure-critical initiatives.
- •Design, build, and own the cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) that runs Salient
- •from compute and networking to storage and observability.
- •Develop scalable harnesses that enable coding agents to operate reliably without compromising system stability or code quality.
- •Partner closely with the modeling team to optimize the serving and performance of GPU-intensive workloads.
- •Drive reliability and performance across the stack by defining SLOs, building robust monitoring and alerting, and leading incident response and postmortems.
- •Requirements 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years at the senior or staff level in infrastructure/platform roles, working on large-scale distributed systems.
- •Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS or GCP)
- •compute, networking, storage, IAM, and cost optimization.
- •Expert in infrastructure-as-code, with a strong track record of building scalable automation systems.
- •Extensive experience owning and scaling Kubernetes and CI/CD systems in high-throughput, production environments.
- •Track record of building and operating high-availability, high-throughput distributed systems with mature observability practices.
- •Strong technical communication
- •able to document architecture clearly and influence engineering decisions across teams.
Required skills
AWSGoogle CloudKubernetesCI/CDTerraformPythonSQLDockerPrometheusGrafanaDatadog
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
medical, dental, and vision coverage, generous 401(k), caterred lunches
Tech stack
AWSGoogle CloudKubernetesCI/CDTerraformGraphQLPythonSQLDockerPrometheusGrafanaDatadog