Salient

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Salient

San Francisco / Remote
New

1 day ago

180K - 250K
0.08% - 0.3%
engineering
fulltime

We are hiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, production-grade infrastructure from the ground up for enterprise, big bank clients with critical data. You'll own and develop our deployment pipelines, observability systems, and cloud infrastructure as we transition to a Kubernetes-based architecture. This is an onsite role in San Francisco — close collaboration with product, engineering, and leadership is critical.

You’ll have significant autonomy: we're looking for someone who can operate independently, set technical direction, and build systems that scale without extensive guidance.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement a new scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for real-time AI-driven voice services.
  • Lead our migration to Kubernetes (from ECS) and establish infrastructure best practices.
  • Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and safe deployments.
  • Own monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to ensure uptime and performance.
  • Be the primary PoC for on-call responsibilities to maintain 24/7 uptime systems
  • Automate operational workflows and infrastructure provisioning (Infrastructure-as-Code).
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to debug live issues, improve system resilience, and optimize performance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience, including experience leading projects independently.
  • Deep expertise in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or similar).
  • Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes) in production environments.
  • Strong awareness of networking concepts and how to implement within AWS (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP, Firewalls, NAT)
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
  • Strong software engineering skills with demonstrated proficiency in languages commonly used for infrastructure automation like Python, Go, and Bash
  • Experience designing monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana).
  • Strong understanding of security, reliability, and scaling best practices for cloud-native systems.
  • Excellent communication skills and a hands-on, ownership-driven mindset.
  • Willingness to work long hours - 8 am-7 pm is a good day
  • In-person in San Francisco four days a week

Nice to have

  • Experience working with real-time communication systems (e.g., SIP, WebRTC, LiveKit).
  • Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare).
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Salient

AI Servicing for Auto Lenders

Headquarters

Los Angeles, CA

Primary Vertical

B2B Software and Services

Team Size

9

Funding

$1.5B

Benefits

Health Insurance
Flexible Hours
Learning Budget
Paid Time Off
Gym Membership
Free Snacks
Remote Work
401(k) Match
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