Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

New York. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will design, secure, and operate core systems that power Traversal's AI products. You will focus on Terraform-defined infrastructure and Kubernetes environments to support the Traversal AI SRE agent.

What you will do

Design scalable, reliable infrastructure for AI workloads, inference, data pipelines, and agentic workflows
Build and deliver developer experience and software development lifecycle tooling
Scale on real signals including queue lag, in-flight requests, and latency
Evolve Terraform+Helm for multi-environment deployments, secrets, policy-as-code, and workload identity
Build and deliver end-to-end visibility into infrastructure, systems, and applications
Partner with the cloud security lead to improve security and compliance posture

Required qualifications

7+ years of experience at technically rigorous companies or teams
Proven experience operating cloud and Kubernetes native infrastructure and applications at scale with >99.9% availability
Demonstrated hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Terraform, Helm
Experience designing idempotent systems (outbox, dedupe keys, safe replay)
Incident response, chaos testing, capacity planning
Strong debugging skills across infrastructure, compute, network, runtime, storage, and auth layers

Nice to have

Service mesh (Envoy/Istio), Cilium/eBPF
GPU workload operations, inference servers, token streaming gateways
Production experience building and maintaining systems in Python, Rust, and TypeScript
Data governance (PII discovery/redaction), lineage, tokenization
Experience designing, implementing, and deploying cross-region active/active architectures
Familiarity with other cloud providers (GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud)

Benefits

startup equity
health insurance
fertility benefits
great tech setup stipend
flexible time off
in-office snacks
team happy hours and outings
annual company offsite

About the company

Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise. The company is built to autonomously understand, diagnose, fix, and prevent incidents in complex production environments.