AustinWorks · 17 hours ago
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$250K/yr - $450K/yr
4+ years expAustinWorks is seeking a foundational infrastructure engineer to own the cloud and data backbone of a fast-growing AI systems company. The role involves designing systems for multi-cloud operations and ensuring reliability and scalability in real-world environments.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Charlie Austin
Responsibilities
Design and operate multi-region, highly available infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure
Scale high-throughput data ingestion and query systems (telemetry, analytics, streaming)
Build and maintain self-hosted and BYOC deployments (VPC, on-prem, restricted networks)
Architect secure networking and identity systems (encryption, isolation, IAM, SSO)
Implement private connectivity between cloud and customer environments
Build automation for provisioning, upgrades, rollbacks, and lifecycle management
Define infrastructure best practices, identify bottlenecks early, and ship durable fixes
Qualification
Required
4–7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure or infra-heavy backend engineering
Strong background in distributed systems and data scale (ingestion + query performance)
Experience with customer-managed or security-constrained environments
Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a fast-paced, early-stage setting
Hands-on individual contributor (not manager-only)
Design and operate multi-region, highly available infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure
Scale high-throughput data ingestion and query systems (telemetry, analytics, streaming)
Build and maintain self-hosted and BYOC deployments (VPC, on-prem, restricted networks)
Architect secure networking and identity systems (encryption, isolation, IAM, SSO)
Implement private connectivity between cloud and customer environments
Build automation for provisioning, upgrades, rollbacks, and lifecycle management
Define infrastructure best practices, identify bottlenecks early, and ship durable fixes
Preferred
Kubernetes (nice to have)
Experience supporting regulated environments is a plus
Benefits
Equity: Competitive
Company
AustinWorks
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0-1 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase