Infrastructure Engineer

The role

An Infrastructure Engineer will architect and own systems that power Salient at scale. You will design cloud infrastructure, develop scalable harnesses for coding agents, and drive reliability across the stack.

What you will do

• Lead architectural decisions and technical reviews for infrastructure-critical initiatives.
• Design, build, and own the cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Develop scalable harnesses that enable coding agents to operate reliably.
• Partner with the modeling team to optimize serving and performance of GPU-intensive workloads.
• Drive reliability and performance by defining SLOs, building monitoring, and leading incident response.
• Own developer platform investments including CI/CD, deployment tooling, and environments.
• Establish infrastructure best practices, patterns, and standards.
• Identify and reduce technical debt across infrastructure systems.

Required qualifications

• 2-8 years of software engineering experience
• 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

Nice to have

• Background in security
• Exposure to serving AI/ML workloads
• Combination of big tech and startup experience

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Generous 401(k)
• Catered lunches

About the company

Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services. The company is backed by a16z and Y Combinator and is building in person in San Francisco.