# Staff Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

**Company:** [Wispr Flow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/wispr-flow)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $270k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Terraform, AWS, gRPC, Temporal, SQS
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Staff Platform Engineer building scalable infrastructure to support low-latency voice AI product used hundreds of times daily by millions. Architect core platform components connecting product and ML, anticipate scaling bottlenecks, improve developer experience, and set technical direction for growing team.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Build the seam between product and ML: credentials, proxy, routing, experimentation.
- See the next scaling bottleneck two quarters early and fix it before anyone notices it existed.
- Architect and own whole parts of the platform end to end.
- Make every product engineer faster — dev experience, deploy speed, abstractions.
- Help set technical direction as the team goes from three to eight.

## Requirements
- You've rewritten an entire service because you realized the bugs were all coming from bad architecture.
- You've seen systems break, understood why, and now think twelve months ahead.
- You build the foundation patiently so that everything after it ships faster.
- You get excited about complex problems with lots of constraints and edge cases.
- You care as much about the user journey as the technical requirements.

## Tech Stack
- Python/FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- Temporal/SQS
- Terraform
- AWS
- gRPC
- ALB
- Fargate

## Benefits
- Equity on employee-friendly terms, including early exercise and extended exercise windows with a combination of ISOs and RSUs.
- Health, dental and vision. We cover 100% of the premium on the Anthem Blue Cross Gold PPO, and 75% of premiums for dependents. (US)
- 401(k) with up to a 4% match. (US)
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave (12 weeks for non-birthing parent).
- Flexible time off and company holidays.
- All meals in the office, plus commuter benefits and relocation reimbursement if you’re moving to San Francisco.
- A high-spec laptop, monitor, and a whisper-friendly microphone.
- Regular team events and off-sites.

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