Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Sierra
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 230,000 - 390,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-7 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Ownership"]

Design, build, and maintain the core systems powering an AI platform. Ensure secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure with Terraform-based cloud environments, a self-serve platform for engineers, robust CI/CD and release processes, distributed systems with ML components, authentication and security features, and strong observability. Lead incident response and integrate with enterprise environments to empower rapid, safe deployments.

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Sierra
Sierra
3 months ago

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Design, build, and maintain the core systems powering an AI platform. Ensure secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure with Terraform-based cloud environments, a self-serve platform for engineers, robust CI/CD and release processes, distributed systems with ML components, authentication and security features, and strong observability. Lead incident response and integrate with enterprise environments to empower rapid, safe deployments.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform and LLM inference serving as we rapidly grow traffic.
  • •Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform to ensure scalable, secure, and reproducible environments.
  • •Create and maintain a self-serve infrastructure platform that enables the rest of engineering to deploy and operate services.
  • •Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and release management, enabling fast, reliable deployments for Sierra’s platform.
  • •Architect and operate distributed systems that leverage distributed databases, retrieval systems, and ML models.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 230,000 - 390,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Paid LeaveHealth InsuranceDentalVisionRetirementParental LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •5–7+ years of hands-on development experience in highly technical products
  • •Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
  • •Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, release management, and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • •Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
  • •Experience in incident response and operating distributed systems in production
Experience:5-7 yearsCloudInfrastructureSaaSAI
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationOwnership
Tech Stack:TerraformAWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaDatadogOpenTelemetrySSORBACMTLSOAuth

Company Brief

Sierra
Develops advanced AI agents and tools focused on building autonomous, generalist machine learning systems to assist developers and enterprises in automating complex workflows, decision-making, and application-level tasks.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
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