Founding Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an early-stage AI infrastructure company as its founding cloud infrastructure engineer. You will design and build the cloud systems behind a platform that helps enterprise AI agents use reliable, governed business context. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and build production cloud infrastructure from the ground up, guiding architecture through deployment and scaling. - Own infrastructure decisions and establish standards and practices for a growing engineering team. - Build and operate Kubernetes or comparable container orchestration platforms and infrastructure-as-code systems. - Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, observability, and logging. - Design secure cloud networking, access controls, and database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems. - Support data infrastructure and pipelines that power the platform. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Five or more years building and operating production cloud infrastructure, with roughly 5 to 12 years of overall experience. - Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services. - Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi. - Production experience architecting and managing Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform. - Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure observability and logging, cloud security, and access control. - Experience designing database infrastructure for relational and NoSQL systems at scale. - Comfort building from scratch in an early-stage or high-growth environment, with a stable work history and full-time availability. - Experience with data infrastructure, knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/ML platforms is helpful. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Visa sponsorship is available. Salary and equity details were not provided. LOCATION On-site in San Mateo, California, United States.