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Software Engineer, Infrastructure

descript· 11 open roles

Remote RemoteFull-time2 weeks ago
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Experience
Mid
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
2 weeks ago
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About This RoleAI processing…

Platform owns the foundation the company runs on: compute and deployment, reliability and on-call, CI/CD and monorepo health, developer environments, the infrastructure that model training and inference run on, and the security boundaries around all of it. AI and agent tooling is the clearest example. You will contribute to how models are trained and served here, as well as how agents work inside our codebase: the environments they run in, the verification that makes their output trustworthy, and the review paths that keep it all legible. There is no industry standard and you’ll help form our

Key Responsibilities

  • 1
    Improve how the team learns and ships. Form hypotheses, instrument your work, release incrementally, and read results honestly. Strengthen the tooling, standards, tests, observability, and release practices that help the team move quickly without compromising quality.
  • 2
    You will contribute to how models are trained and served here, as well as how agents work inside our codebase: the environments they run in, the verification that makes their output trustworthy, and the review paths that keep it all legible.
  • 3
    Strengthen the tooling, standards, tests, observability, and release practices that help the team move quickly without compromising quality.

Requirements

  • You have 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems, or equivalent server-side engineering with a heavy infrastructure focus.
  • GPU and ML infrastructure: capacity planning, training or inference pipelines, serving cost and latency. If you haven't run a GPU fleet, experience with expensive capacity-constrained systems transfers well.
  • Production security engineering: IAM, secrets, supply chain, least privilege. You don't need to have held a security title, but you should have owned these boundaries for systems you ran.
  • What you bring Required: You have 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems, or equivalent server-side engineering with a heavy infrastructure focus.
  • If you haven't run a GPU fleet, experience with expensive capacity-constrained systems transfers well.
  • You don't need to have held a security title, but you should have owned these boundaries for systems you ran.
  • Final offer amounts will carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise, location, and level, and may vary from the amount above.

Perks & Benefits

If you take the time to make something in Descript, we’ll commit to having a human watch it and review your application. 🤝 Compensation and benefits Base salary: $220,000 to $292,000, plus equity and benefits.
Benefits include a generous healthcare package, 401k matching program, catered lunches, and flexible vacation time.

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