3 months ago
Base Salary
$100k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure production infrastructure.
- Own cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking while optimizing availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation to improve developer velocity and system reliability.
- Lead incident response, including on-call rotations, incident coordination, postmortems, and root cause analyses.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to balance reliability, performance, cost, and development speed.
- Automate capacity planning, safe rollouts, graceful degradation, and data access controls.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while shaping infrastructure team culture and standards.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language.
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security principles.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, and modern infrastructure automation.
- Experience with or ability to learn Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Experience with observability and incident management tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, BetterStack, and PagerDuty, as well as SLOs and error budgets.
- Experience with data and systems supporting analytics and customer-facing workloads, especially in serverless environments such as Neon and Modal.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and taking end-to-end ownership.
- Willingness to work in person in Flatiron, NYC five days a week.
- Excitement about working with coding agents and applying agents to real-economy problems.
Benefits
- In-person work in Flatiron, NYC five days per week.
- Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life insurance.
- Six coaching and six therapy sessions through Spring Health.
- Unlimited PTO and 12 paid company holidays.
- Daily meal stipends, a fully stocked kitchen, and $300 toward a custom desk setup.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits and a 401(k) retirement plan.
- Monthly office activities and frequent optional team happy hours.
- Parental leave.
About Basis AI
Basis AI builds an AI platform for accounting firms, providing autonomous assistants that handle long-horizon, end-to-end accounting workflows. It sells enterprise software and services that embed agents into firm operations to automate tasks like data enrichment, scoring, and pipeline visibility. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and its software is used by some of the largest accounting firms.