Senior SRE, DevOps, Platform and Infrastructure Engineer

New York 5 days agoFull-time External
Negotiable
Full time · On site | Hybrid | Remote · $160K – $480K base plus equity 💰🚀 About these roles I am hiring SRE, DevOps, Infra, Platform, Systems and Backend Engineers for several elite AI driven startups and scale ups, including Endex, Athena Intelligence, Haize Labs, Decagon, Sea12, Blacksmith, RunSybil and GovSignals. These teams are small, technical and fast moving ⚡ You will own core systems that support AI agents, financial research engines, security platforms, low latency services and large scale compute environments. If you want high ownership in an onsite setting and love building serious infrastructure, this is for you 🛠️🔥 What you will do You will work across areas such as • Build resilient backend services and internal platforms in Python, Go, Rust or TypeScript 🧩 • Design, scale and operate cloud environments on AWS, GCP or Azure ☁️ • Manage Kubernetes, multi cluster workloads and infra as code with Terraform ⚙️ • Create production grade CI and CD pipelines and level up DevEx across engineering 🚦 • Build and run data pipelines, search systems and high performance AI infra including RAG, LLM orchestration and evaluation tooling 🤖 • Implement observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and Datadog 📊 • Improve reliability and performance across distributed systems focusing on p95 and p99 latency 🏎️ • Strengthen security and harden services for customer facing deployments 🔐 What we are looking for • Five plus years building and operating backend or infrastructure systems 🛠️ • Strong cloud, container and distributed systems knowledge 🌐 • Comfortable with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and modern CI and CD 🧱 • Skilled in at least one backend language such as Python, Go, Rust or TypeScript 💻 • Experience with Postgres, Redis or similar data stores 📚 • Practical, hands on problem solving in small, senior teams 🤝 • Bonus points for AI infra, edge runtimes, bare metal systems, security or early stage startup exposure ⭐ Why this matters • Work directly with founders and senior engineers from Palantir, OpenAI, Meta, Cockroach Labs, Citadel, Datadog and others 🎯 • Build real AI and infra products, not shallow wrappers 🔧 • High impact, high ownership and huge technical growth 🚀 • Join onsite teams that move quickly and value strong fundamentals ⚡