Infrastructure Engineer
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Role Details
Company: US-based enterprise AI software company
Industry: Enterprise Software / Artificial Intelligence
Location: New York City, New York
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Arrangement: In-office, five days per week
Salary: $200,000–$400,000
Equity: 0.1%–0.5%
Experience: 3–8 years
Company Stage: Series A
Visa Sponsorship: Available
About the Company
An enterprise AI technology company building a platform that helps organizations modernize and manage complex enterprise software systems. Its platform uses AI to improve engineering productivity, automate technical workflows, and help teams maintain and modernize legacy systems.
The company is backed by venture capital and is focused on building reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for enterprise customers.
About the Role
The company is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale the core platform infrastructure from the ground up. The role focuses on cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, security, reliability, and enterprise deployment capabilities.
Engineers will take ownership of foundational systems, improve infrastructure performance, and help advance AI-powered developer tools and workflows.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain core platform infrastructure and cloud environments.
Develop infrastructure as code, primarily using Terraform and AWS.
Improve system reliability, scalability, security, and observability.
Build foundational platform capabilities, including code search, authentication, sandboxing, and orchestration.
Develop automated deployment systems across multiple customer environments.
Manage networking, VPNs, firewall rules, and connectivity with customer infrastructure.
Support enterprise security, compliance, and deployment requirements.
Improve developer experience and engineering productivity through AI-powered tools and workflows.
Requirements
Strong experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, backend systems, distributed systems, DevOps, or security engineering.
Hands-on production experience with Terraform and strong AWS knowledge.
Solid networking fundamentals, including VPCs, VPNs, IAM, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or similar.
Programming experience in Python, JavaScript/React, or Go.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to solve unfamiliar technical problems independently.
Interest in AI-driven development workflows and improving developer productivity.
Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar compliance frameworks is a plus.
AI/LLM experience is beneficial but not required.
Benefits
Health insurance.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
Standard employee benefits package.
Interview Process
Candidate submission and company review.
Introductory interview with a company founder.
First technical interview with a founding engineer.
Second technical interview with a founding engineer.
Paid work trial lasting 1–3 days.
Reference checks.
Offer and hiring.
Required Screening Question
Are you able to work on-site in New York City five days per week?
🌍 Remote from anywhere in the globe
Workplace, Culture & Diversity
Corporate culture is essential to allow the organization to differentiate itself. In terms of image on the one hand, it has strengths both internally and externally to consumers. It is indeed a source of cohesion and motivation of employees and it limits conflicts. With customers, it conveys a positive image and can develop a feeling of closeness to the company or even become a criterion of choice.
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