Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will build and run the infrastructure behind real-time voice AI conversations. You will work with the founders and engineering team to make the platform reliable and scalable.

What you will do

• Build and operate AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules and consistent environments.
• Build deployment workflows with automated checks and reliable rollbacks.
• Design autoscaling and graceful shutdown behavior for services.
• Improve observability across infrastructure and application services.
• Investigate production issues and improve incident response.
• Partner with application and AI engineers to deploy services and manage costs.
• Make it easier for engineers to provision resources and deploy changes.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience.
• Hands-on experience building infrastructure from the ground up at an early-stage startup.
• Experience running Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure in production.
• Strong Terraform experience, including maintainable modules, state management, and safe infrastructure changes.
• A solid understanding of Linux, containers, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and operating services through deployments, incidents, and growth.
• Ability to write software and automation in a language such as Python, Go, or TypeScript.
• Good judgment about when to introduce new infrastructure and when to keep things simple.
• Someone who takes ownership, communicates clearly, and follows problems through to a lasting fix.

Nice to have

• Experience with Argo CD, Helm, or other GitOps tooling.
• Familiarity with real-time audio, SIP, WebRTC, or other latency-sensitive systems.
• Experience operating PostgreSQL, Redis, queues, and background workers.
• Experience deploying GPU workloads or self-hosted AI inference.
• Familiarity with infrastructure security and supporting SOC 2 requirements.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & meaningful equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms
• Health, dental & vision insurance
• Free lunch & dinner at the office
• Late night Ubers
• Regular team events & offsites

Before you apply

• Simple AI is unable to provide employment visa sponsorship for this role.

About the company

Simple AI builds voice AI agents that help businesses grow revenue. The company has grown into a team of 20+ and is continuing to scale quickly.