Infrastructure Engineer

Company: $40M-Funded Series A Industrial Technology Startup

Location: San Francisco, CA

Work Arrangement: Onsite, five days per week

Compensation: $150,000 to $175,000 base salary, plus equity

Experience: Ideally 3 to 8 years

About the Company

Our client is a VC-backed industrial technology startup rebuilding America’s metal supply through advanced recycling and computer vision technology. The company has developed novel sortation technology that separates mixed scrap into pure alloys, as well as computer vision sensors that help recycling facilities price materials accurately and detect fraud in real time.

Backed by $40 million in Series A funding, the company is a small, high-caliber team preparing to scale its technology across hundreds of customer locations nationwide.

About the Role

The company is hiring its first dedicated Infrastructure Engineer to own the operational foundation of its sensor platform. You will take end-to-end responsibility for cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipelines, observability, incident response, reliability, and cost controls.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who has scaled production infrastructure and is comfortable operating independently within an early-stage environment. This is not an application-development position with occasional DevOps responsibilities.

What You’ll Do

Own production infrastructure across GCP, including Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, IAM, secrets, and environment parity
Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform
Develop CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Implement observability across logs, metrics, alerts, dashboards, and incident response
Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational performance
Establish cloud cost controls as customer deployments increase
Manage observability for GPU workloads
Build fleet automation for edge devices deployed at customer locations
Own production incidents and participate in on-call responsibilities
Partner directly with the founders and engineering team on infrastructure decisions

Required Qualifications

Ideally, 3+ years of infrastructure, platform, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience
Proven end-to-end ownership of production infrastructure
Demonstrated experience scaling infrastructure in a production environment
Strong experience with GCP or AWS
Hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling
Strong knowledge of Docker, Linux, CI/CD, and deployment automation
Experience implementing observability systems for logs, metrics, alerts, and incident response
Production on-call or incident-response experience
Ability to own infrastructure with minimal oversight
Computer science degree or equivalent engineering background
Ability to work onsite in San Francisco five days per week

Preferred Qualifications

Experience at a top-tier technology company or high-growth VC-backed startup
Early-stage startup experience, preferably Series A or earlier
Experience managing GPU workloads or distributed edge-device fleets
Familiarity with Python, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL
Experience with Cloud SQL performance tuning
Familiarity with Ansible, Tailscale, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
Experience managing cloud costs and capacity planning
Background supporting hardware and software systems operating across distributed physical locations

What Makes This Opportunity Different

Become the first dedicated infrastructure hire at a well-funded Series A startup
Own the entire operational foundation rather than a narrow piece of a larger platform
Work across cloud services, GPU jobs, deployment systems, and edge-device fleets
Join a small team solving a major industrial and environmental problem
Receive competitive equity with meaningful ground-floor upside

Work Authorization and Relocation

The company cannot provide new visa sponsorship. Existing visa transfers may be considered. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area. Relocation assistance is not currently provided.

Interview Process

Founder screen
Technical interview
One to two-day work trial

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