Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will own the cloud footprint across AWS, GCP, and Render. You will manage infrastructure consistency, capacity, cost attribution, and reliability for the platform.

What you will do

• Day-to-day operation of infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render
• Bring resources under Terraform or equivalent using reusable modules and drift detection
• Forecast demand, autoscaling, quotas, and headroom for real-time voice and AI workloads
• Manage cost attribution and monitoring through tagging, allocation, and dashboards
• Identify and ship cost reduction through rightsizing, commitments, and consolidation
• Ensure reliability and observability including incident response and post-mortem follow-through
• Maintain secure, auditable infrastructure for SOC 2 and customer security requirements

Required qualifications

• Operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at meaningful scale
• Manage infrastructure as code
• Delivered measurable cloud cost savings
• Planned capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads and tuned autoscaling in production
• Build monitoring and alerting
• Design for least privilege, auditability, and safe change management

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time voice, telephony, WebRTC, or streaming systems
• Experience running GPU or LLM inference workloads, or managing spend on hosted AI APIs
• FinOps practice experience (e.g., cost allocation programs, FinOps certification)
• Experience in a regulated industry such as financial services

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 serves more than 20% of the auto lending industry.