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Infrastructure Engineer

SF HeadquartersFull-time2026-09-27 → 2026-11-14
Hybrid · United States

Core

Architect and own the cloud infrastructure and developer platform that powers Salient's AI agents for financial services, handling millions of daily transactions.

Role type

Senior IC Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud & Platform)

Builds

Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and developer platform tools

Domain

Fintech, AI infrastructure, distributed systems

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud platform expertise (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, Observability, Distributed systems design, SLO definition, Incident response

Preferred skills

Security background, AI/ML workload serving experience, Big tech and startup experience

Technologies

AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools

Responsibilities

Lead architectural decisions for infrastructure initiatives, design and own cloud infrastructure, develop scalable harnesses for coding agents, optimize GPU-intensive workloads, drive reliability via SLOs and monitoring, own developer platform investments, establish infrastructure standards, reduce technical debt

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC