Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Own Salient's cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 9 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 9 hours ago
What you'll build
- Operate Salient's infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render
- Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform
- Forecast demand and manage capacity
- Monitor and attribute cloud costs
- Ensure reliability and observability of the platform
Must have
- Operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP
- Managed infrastructure as code
- Delivered measurable cloud cost savings
- Planned capacity for spiky workloads
- Built monitoring and alerting systems
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time voice or telephony systems
- Experience running GPU or LLM inference workloads
- FinOps practice experience
- Experience in a regulated industry
Practical constraints
- Works around 60 hours per week
- Four days spent collaborating in person at the San Francisco office
AI in the day-to-day
Salient builds AI agents for regulated financial services, integrating modern AI into their infrastructure.
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Salient is responsible for managing and optimizing the company's cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render, ensuring consistency and reliability as the business scales. Key skills include expertise in infrastructure as code, capacity management, and cost monitoring, with a focus on delivering measurable savings and maintaining system performance. This role is suited for someone with significant experience in production environments and a strong understanding of cloud cost structures, particularly in regulated industries. Salient's fast-paced environment emphasizes ownership and direct impact on operational efficiency.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, United States.
- Where is the role based?
- Salient is hiring for this position in San Francisco, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Voice, WebRTC.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Salient targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role at Salient.
From the original posting
We are:
Backed by a16z and Y Combinator, with $75M raised in Series A funding
Actively expanding into new financial services segments
Building together in person in San Francisco
About the Role
We're hiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own Salient's cloud footprint across AWS, GCP, and Render. You will make our infrastructure consistent across providers, stay ahead of capacity as call volume and customers grow, make every dollar of cloud spend attributable, and execute on cost-cutting opportunities.
You will work directly with engineering, product, and company leadership. You will own outcomes, not tickets: reliability, consistency, capacity, and cost of the platform that runs every borrower conversation Salient handles.
What You'll Own
• Day-to-day operation of Salient's infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Render, to one consistent standard.
• Infrastructure as code: bringing resources under Terraform (or equivalent), reusable modules, consistent environments, and drift detection.
• Capacity management: forecasting demand, autoscaling, quotas, and headroom for real-time voice and AI workloads.
• Cost attribution and monitoring: tagging, allocation by product and customer, unit-cost metrics, dashboards, budgets, and anomaly alerts.
• Cost reduction: identifying, prioritizing, and shipping savings through rightsizing, commitments, cleanup, consolidation, and provider moves where justified.
• Reliability and observability of the platform, including incident response and post-mortem follow-through.
• Secure, auditable infrastructure that supports SOC 2 and customer security requirements.
What You'll Bring
• You've operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at meaningful scale, and you're comfortable across providers.
• You manage infrastructure as code and have brought messy, hand-built environments under control.
• You've delivered measurable cloud cost savings and can explain pricing models, commitments, and data transfer costs.
• You've planned capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads and tuned autoscaling in production.
• You build monitoring and alerting that catch problems early, and you lead incidents calmly.
• You design for least privilege, auditability, and safe change management by default.
• You favor simple, consistent systems over sophisticated ones and know what not to build.
• You write clearly and can explain cost and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, finance, and leadership.
Nice to Have
• Experience with real-time voice, telephony, WebRTC, or streaming systems.
• Experience running GPU or LLM inference workloads, or managing spend on hosted AI APIs.
• FinOps practice experience (e.g., cost allocation programs, FinOps certification) or experience in a regulated industry such as financial services.
Why This Role
Salient runs live borrower conversations for lenders, and our infrastructure spans three providers that grew quickly alongside the business. You'll have the ownership and leverage to make it consistent, predictable, and efficient, with direct impact on reliability for customers and on the company's margins.
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