Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Staff Infrastructure Engineer building analytics, observability, and developer tooling for Aurelian's real-time AI agents that support 911 emergency call centers. Requires 6+ years in infrastructure/platform/backend roles with experience in reliability and scale.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Build out analytics infrastructure using ClickHouse to handle massive increases in traffic and increasingly complex queries.
- Create great instrumentation, logging, and monitoring tools to give as much visibility as possible into where calls go wrong in production.
- Develop testing frameworks, CLIs, automations, etc. that help the team move quickly with AI coding tools without sacrificing reliability or confidence.
- Build the systems, tools, and abstractions that make other engineers more productive and the platform more reliable.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering roles, ideally at companies where reliability and scale are serious challenges.
- Comfortable across areas of the stack from backend application code to cloud infrastructure.
- Thrive on autonomy and constantly look for new areas to improve.
- Excited by the challenges of building AI systems at scale.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with ClickHouse.
- Experience with AI systems at scale.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $200,000 - $300,000 (total compensation may include equity).
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision & Life insurance.
- 401(k).
- Unlimited PTO.
- Company-wide offsites.
- Equipment stipend.
- Relocation assistance.
- Daily delivered lunches.
- Office in Seattle.
- Start-up Equity.
Skills
ClickHouse, Infrastructure, Observability, Logging, Monitoring, Testing Frameworks, Cli, Automation, Backend Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Ai Systems
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