SWE Infrastructure
Role Overview
This senior-level Infrastructure Engineer role involves designing and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure, automating deployments with Infrastructure-as-Code, and ensuring high availability and performance for an AI startup. You'll work closely with product and research teams to build reliable systems that handle explosive traffic, focusing on monitoring, security, and disaster recovery in a high-growth environment.
Perks & Benefits
This is a fully remote position, likely with flexible hours, though time zone expectations may align with the NYC-based company. The role offers career growth in a hyper-growth startup backed by top venture capital, with a high-ownership culture that values learning and impact. Benefits likely include competitive compensation, opportunities for skill development in cutting-edge tech, and a collaborative team environment.
Full Job Description
As an Infrastructure Engineer at Profound, you'll build and scale the systems that power our rapid growth. You'll ensure our infrastructure is highly available, cost-effective, and able to handle explosive traffic and compute demands. You'll work closely with engineers across product, research, and operations to design scalable architectures, streamline deployments, and improve observability.
What You'll Work On
Designing and maintaining core infrastructure across cloud environments
Building Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to automate deployments and scaling
Improving monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability
Managing CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments
Supporting disaster recovery planning and ensuring high availability of systems
Partnering with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands
Identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking
Implementing security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure
What We're Looking For
Required:
Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform)
Deep experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of distributed architectures
Programming proficiency in Python and Rust (or willingness to learn Rust quickly)
Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments
Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment
Preferred:
Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
Database scaling and optimization experience
Observability and monitoring expertise
Network architecture and performance tuning
Security and compliance experience
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