Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will architect and evolve the systems that power Gradial's AI-driven content operations platform. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in startup-to-scale up environments and brings a deep understanding of how to make infrastructure reliable, secure, and scalable. You'll play a critical role in building on core systems, supporting rapid product iteration and ensuring the platform is built for growth. You'll own infrastructure in production, guide system evolution, and help shape the future of AI.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering roles
- Proven track record designing and operating large-scale, production-grade infrastructure
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and container orchestration
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, GitOps), CI/CD tooling, and monitoring stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience in high-growth environments, especially scaling infrastructure from early product-market fit to maturity
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure to support Gradial's AI platform
- Lead Kubernetes cluster management, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and infrastructure-as-code efforts
- Anticipate scaling needs and proactively evolve infrastructure architecture to support growth and reliability
- Take full ownership of real-time, compute-intensive services: design, deploy and maintain them to meet high performance standards with minimal oversight
- Establish and enforce best practices for system reliability, performance monitoring, and disaster recovery
- Evaluate and implement infrastructure automation tools to improve deployment velocity and reduce operational burden
- Act as a strategic voice on infrastructure investment, technical debt management, and long-term scalability planning
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- 401K retirement plan
- Paid time off
- Paid sick leave
- Employee wellness programs
- Meaningful equity
- Performance-based bonuses and equity awards