Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to architect and own the systems that power Salient at scale. This high‑impact individual contributor role focuses on infrastructure engineering, defining how we build, deploy, and operate the platform that processes millions of financial transactions and customer interactions daily. You will set the technical direction for reliability, scalability, and developer velocity across the stack.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architectural decisions and technical reviews for infrastructure‑critical initiatives.
• Design, build, and own the cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) covering compute, networking, storage, and observability.
• Develop scalable harnesses that enable coding agents to operate reliably without compromising system stability or code quality.
• Partner with the modeling team to optimize serving and performance of GPU‑intensive workloads.
• Define SLOs, build robust monitoring and alerting, and lead incident response and postmortems.
• Own developer platform investments such as CI/CD, deployment tooling, environments, and internal infrastructure abstractions.
• Establish infrastructure best practices, patterns, and standards as a technical authority.
• Identify and reduce technical debt with a focus on long‑term scalability and operational health.

Required profile

• 2‑8 years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years at senior or staff level in infrastructure/platform roles.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) – compute, networking, storage, IAM, and cost optimization.
• Expertise in infrastructure‑as‑code with a proven track record of building scalable automation.
• Extensive experience owning and scaling Kubernetes and CI/CD systems in high‑throughput production environments.
• Track record of building and operating high‑availability, high‑throughput distributed systems with mature observability practices.
• Strong technical communication skills to document architecture and influence engineering decisions.

Required skills

• AWS
• GCP
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Observability
• GPU workloads
• IAM
• Cost optimization

What we offer

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Generous 401(k) plan.
• Catered lunches.