True Talent Solutions Partners

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco
Salary
$200,000 - $300,000 annually
Level
Staff
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 30 October 2026.

About the role

About the Role

Join a small AI and machine learning product team as a staff-level infrastructure engineer. You will build and operate reliable cloud infrastructure that supports AI agent workloads and user-facing products at scale.

What You'll Do

  • Build and operate production cloud infrastructure and containerized services using infrastructure as code.
  • Develop durable workflows for long-running product and AI agent tasks.
  • Design, scale, and tune databases that support core product capabilities.
  • Build infrastructure for AI and machine learning workloads, including model routing, inference, and GPU orchestration.
  • Partner with product and engineering colleagues to deliver dependable platform capabilities and improve them in production.
  • Use AI coding tools as part of your daily engineering workflow.

What We're Looking For

  • Four to ten years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering, with a record of increasing responsibility and progression beyond senior-level scope.
  • Production experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CDK, Docker, and a major cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Hands-on experience operating Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestration system in production.
  • Experience running cloud infrastructure for a product with more than one million users.
  • Strong production database skills, including schema design, scaling, and performance tuning; relevant technologies include Postgres, Redis, and ClickHouse.
  • Startup experience or a combination of big technology company and startup experience.
  • Daily use of AI coding tools and the ability to explain how they fit into your workflow.
  • Experience building infrastructure for AI agents or machine learning workloads is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (71 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), LLM (43 of 125), Machine Learning (36 of 125), React (36 of 125), AWS (28 of 125), JavaScript (24 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Salary context

5 other open postings titled Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure state a salary: median USD 230,000 to USD 270,000 a year.

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