Blockit AI
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jan 21, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time on backend or infrastructure.
About the job
Build and operate the infrastructure, observability, and developer tools that support Blockit’s stateful AI scheduling agent.
What you'll do
- Own and improve core data systems, async processing, and LLM infrastructure for reliability, latency, and cost.
- Manage observability, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and the on-call rotation.
- Lead infrastructure migrations and own developer experience, deploys, capacity planning, and AI-enabled engineering tools.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time on backend or infrastructure.
- Deep database skills, including reading query plans and diagnosing bottlenecks.
- Experience running production services and owning an on-call pager.
- Familiarity with job queues, async processing, or event-driven systems.
Nice to have
- Interest in developer tooling and how AI changes engineers’ workflows.
- Pragmatic judgment on build-versus-buy decisions.
Tools
PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, pg-boss, Postmark, Redis, Kafka, Claude Code
AI focus
Build and optimize LLM infrastructure, including a gateway, evaluation pipelines, and agent observability; develop AI-augmented engineering tools and workflows.
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