# Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

**Company:** [Nooks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nooks)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $215k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Databases, Developer Infrastructure, Observability, CI/CD, Data Modeling, APIs, Incident Response, Mentoring, Scalability
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Senior engineer on the Core Infrastructure team responsible for scaling data layers, observability, and developer tooling to support rapid multi-product growth at Nooks. Requires 5+ years experience scaling systems 10x+, strong distributed systems or infra background, and willingness to be in-office in San Francisco 3+ days/week.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure that makes every product team faster: data models, APIs, observability, CI/CD
- Own systems across the company as Nooks expands from one product to many (Sequencing, Dialer, Agent Studio, Coaching)
- Maintain capacity, reliability, and cost standards while scaling
- Make foundational technical decisions on data access layers and infrastructure cost attribution
- Mentor team members, run code and design reviews, and pair on hard problems

## Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience with depth in distributed systems, databases, or developer infrastructure
- Production experience scaling systems through 10x or 100x growth
- Strong opinions on good developer experience in fast-moving product teams
- Comfortable being on-call during incidents and making the rest of the team faster
- Based in San Francisco with ability to be in-office 3+ days per week

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