Basis
Member of Technical Staff - SRE
$100K–$300K
New York Office · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
About the job
Build and operate the cloud infrastructure and reliability systems that keep Basis’s AI-powered accounting platform scalable, secure, and available.
What you'll do
- Architect and operate production infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking, optimizing reliability, performance, and cost.
- Build and maintain CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation; lead incident response, on-call coordination, and postmortems.
- Partner with product and engineering teams and provide technical leadership on infrastructure standards and reliability practices.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security principles.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, and modern infrastructure automation.
Nice to have
- Experience with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, observability and incident management tools, or systems such as Neon and Modal.
- Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies.
Pay
$100K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, CloudFormation, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, BetterStack, PagerDuty, Neon, Modal
AI focus
The role supports infrastructure for an AI-powered accounting platform. The posting also states a non-negotiable: excitement about working with coding agents and applying agents to real-economy problems.
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