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ParallelParallelPalo Alto, CA

Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure & Scaling

Builds, operates, and scales infrastructure for web/AI products, focusing on reliability, cost-efficiency, and handling large language models. Requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, performance tuning, and scalable architectures.

150k – 300k
On-siteDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and scale infrastructure, including around large language models.
  • Ensure systems are reliable and cost-efficient as the company grows.
  • Anticipate bottlenecks and evolve architecture to meet increasing demands.
  • Build tools and systems to maintain high engineering velocity.

Requirements

  • Deep intuition on distributed systems, cloud platforms, performance tuning, and scalable architecture.
  • Ability to reason about trade-offs between cost, reliability, and speed of iteration.
  • Passion for enabling teams to build faster and ship confidently.
  • Infrastructure supporting products used by millions without issues.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Generous equity
  • Visa sponsorships
  • 401K plans
  • Daily lunch & office snacks
  • Dinner at the office
  • Unlimited vacation
  • Caltrain pass reimbursement

Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsKubernetesPerformance TuningScalable ArchitectureLLMsInfrastructure As CodeMonitoring ToolsAWSGCP

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