ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

Golden Gate Recruiting is thrilled to be partnering with a fast-growing AI startup backed by Browder Capital — one of the earliest investors in breakout companies like Wander.com and Owner.com. This team is putting AI to work solving real problems for real customers, and momentum is building fast across engineering, go-to-market, and design.

THE ROLE

Our client is looking for a Systems Infrastructure Engineer ready to build and scale the infrastructure that powers its entire platform, including ML training and serving systems.

TECH STACK & TOOLS

Kubernetes driving the container orchestration layer
Terraform powering infrastructure as code
AWS, GCP, or Azure for cloud infrastructure
Docker for containerization
Prometheus and Grafana lighting up metrics and dashboards
Datadog for observability and alerting
Argo CD for GitOps-style continuous delivery; GitHub Actions for CI

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Design, build, and operate core infrastructure systems (compute, storage, networking, orchestration)
Push the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of production systems further
Build tooling and automation that boosts engineering velocity
Own incident response and drive postmortems for production issues
Team up with ML and product engineering on infrastructure needs for training and serving models

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

4+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering
Strong experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability practices
Ready to be on-call for critical production systems

NICE TO HAVE

Experience powering infrastructure for ML training/serving workloads
Experience scaling infrastructure through hypergrowth periods

COMPENSATION

$155,000–$230,000 base salary + equity. Target pay generally maps to years of directly relevant experience: 4–6 years $155,000–$180,000; 7–9 years $180,000–$205,000; 10+ years $205,000–$230,000. Bands reflect 2026 early-stage startup market data (seed/Series A–B) for this role and location; final offers may vary based on the candidate's specific background.

HOW TO APPLY

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