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Salient

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

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about 2 months ago

Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architectural decisions and technical reviews for infrastructure-critical initiatives.
  • Design, build, and own the cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP) that runs Salient.
  • Develop scalable harnesses for coding agents to operate reliably.
  • Partner with the modeling team to optimize GPU-intensive workloads.
  • Drive reliability and performance by defining SLOs and leading incident responses.
  • Own developer platform investments to improve engineering velocity.
  • Establish infrastructure best practices and standards across the engineering organization.
  • Identify and reduce technical debt for long-term scalability.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in infrastructure/platform roles.
  • Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) including compute, networking, and storage.
  • Expert in infrastructure-as-code with a track record of building scalable automation systems.
  • Extensive experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD systems in production environments.
  • Proven ability to build and operate high-availability distributed systems.
  • Strong technical communication skills to document architecture and influence decisions.

Benefits

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

Tech Stack

AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes