Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Salary: $211,000 - 251,000 per year Requirements:

• We look for 5-7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience working on highly technical products.
• We value a strong drive to build automation, tooling, and platform capabilities, with an emphasis on maintainable system design.
• We expect experience with cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, plus infrastructure-as-code tools, ideally Terraform.
• We require practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, release management, and container orchestration such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• We seek familiarity with observability platforms and tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• We expect experience responding to incidents and operating distributed systems in production.
• We require a degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Bonus experience includes production work with LLMs and machine learning models.
• Bonus experience also includes distributed systems, SaaS at scale, and agentic architecture.
• Familiarity with security and authentication protocols such as OAuth, SSO, and mTLS is a plus.
• Previous experience in a fast-moving startup or platform/infrastructure-focused team is preferred.

• We design, build, and maintain the core systems that power our AI platform.
• We ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform and LLM inference serving as traffic grows.
• We build and maintain cloud infrastructure with Terraform to support secure, reproducible, and scalable environments.
• We create a self-serve infrastructure platform that allows the broader engineering team to deploy and operate services.
• We own and improve CI/CD pipelines and release management to enable fast, dependable deployments.
• We architect and run distributed systems using distributed databases, retrieval systems, and ML models.
• We develop core data-serving abstractions and security features, including SSO, RBAC, and authentication controls.
• We integrate our stack with enterprise customer environments in scalable and maintainable ways.
• We strengthen observability through metrics, logging, and tracing to improve visibility into platform health and performance.
• We lead and contribute to incident management through monitoring, root cause analysis, and postmortems.

• AI
• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Datadog
• Docker
• GCP
• Grafana
• Incident Management
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Machine Learning
• OAuth
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• RBAC
• Security
• Terraform
• CTO
• DevOps
• REST
• Salesforce
• VR

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We at Sierra are building a platform that helps businesses create more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, Japan, and Sydney. Our culture is shaped by Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. We offer full-time employees flexible unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families, life and disability insurance, a retirement plan depending on country of employment, parental leave, fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot, lunch plus snacks and coffee, a discretionary benefit stipend, and free alphorn lessons. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and encouraging candidates to apply even if their background does not perfectly match the role.

last updated 40 week of 2026