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WriterWriterNew York, NY

Infrastructure engineer

Builds and operates scalable, reliable infrastructure for high-traffic AI platform using cloud providers, containers, and IaC tools. Owns observability, SLOs, incident response, and collaborates on system design. Requires 7+ years in infrastructure/DevOps with strong programming skills.

158k – 278k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What you'll do

  • Use and build AI native approaches for operational tasks and infrastructure management and platforms using Python, Go, or similar languages, significantly reducing manual toil across our production environment
  • Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure AI solutions on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) to support WRITER's rapidly expanding, high-traffic AI platform
  • Own the reliability, performance, and efficiency of WRITER’s core services, defining and upholding stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets
  • Own the observability stack for monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure rapid detection of issues across our complex distributed systems
  • Lead incident response, post-mortems, and root cause analyses, applying learnings to proactively prevent future outages and build a more resilient system architecture
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams, providing expert guidance on system design for reliability, performance, and scalability from conception through launch

What you need

  • A solid 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure engineering, DevOps, Production engineering, Cloud platform or a similar role focused on building and operating large-scale, high-availability production systems
  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred), containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go for automation and monitoring
  • Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to maintain system health and performance
  • Demonstrated ability to Challenge the status quo, proactively identify systemic weaknesses, and propose innovative solutions to complex reliability problems
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a talent for building strong relationships and Connecting with cross-functional teams
  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability, eager to Own mission-critical systems and drive them toward peak performance and unparalleled reliability

Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)

  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
  • Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
  • Fertility and family planning support
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
  • Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
  • Annual work-life stipends for: Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc. Learning and development stipend
  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
  • Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

Skills

AWSKubernetesDockerTerraformPythonGoJavaPrometheusGrafanaElk Stack

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