Vinci
Backend Infrastructure Engineer
$165K–$180K
Palo Alto HQ · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate the backend and infrastructure that support Vinci’s simulation and inference platform, taking research systems into reliable production use.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services and infrastructure; manage cloud environments using Terraform.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and build systems across Python and C++ codebases.
- Harden prototypes and platform components for dependable customer use, collaborating with research and engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend and infrastructure.
- Hands-on Terraform experience and production work on at least one major cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar).
- Built and maintained pipelines using Jenkins or an equivalent CI system; comfortable with CMake and pip/uv.
- Proficient in Python, working familiarity with C++, and contributed to a production data-processing or platform system.
Nice to have
- Experience taking an early-stage prototype to production; exposure to frontend development or 3D rendering/visualization.
- Experience supporting ML or scientific-computing workloads, or using containers, orchestration, and observability tooling.
Pay
$165K – $180K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Terraform, GCP, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, CMake, pip/uv, Python
AI focus
Build infrastructure for a simulation and inference platform that supports AI research and production ML workloads.
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