Salient
Infrastructure Engineer
$200K–$300K
SF Headquarters · On-site · Full-time · Posted Mar 19, 2026
- Experience
- 2–8 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years at the senior or staff level in infrastructure/platform roles.
About the job
Architects and operates Salient’s cloud infrastructure and developer platform, supporting reliable, scalable production systems and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Design and own cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, and observability.
- Improve reliability and performance through SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and postmortems.
- Build developer tooling and scalable harnesses for coding agents; optimize GPU-intensive workload serving with the modeling team.
What they ask for
- 2–8 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years at senior or staff level in infrastructure/platform roles working on large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in AWS or GCP, including compute, networking, storage, IAM, and cost optimization.
- Expertise in infrastructure-as-code and experience building scalable automation systems.
- Extensive experience owning and scaling Kubernetes and CI/CD in production, and operating high-availability distributed systems with mature observability.
Nice to have
- Background in security.
- Exposure to serving AI/ML workloads; experience combining big tech and startup environments.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD
AI focus
Develop scalable harnesses for coding agents and optimize serving and performance of GPU-intensive workloads.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative