# Staff Engineer (Backend, DevOps, Infrastructure)

**Company:** [Zuma](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zuma)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Pulumi, CI/CD, DevOps, Databases, Infrastructure As Code, LLMs, React, TypeScript
**Posted:** 2025-07-03

> Staff Engineer leads architecture rewrites, builds scalable cloud infrastructure with IaC, optimizes data systems, and establishes DevOps practices for AI-powered property management platform. Requires 5+ years backend experience with Node.js and cloud expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead critical system rewrites to transform our architecture into a highly scalable, resilient foundation
- Own the design and performance optimization of our data storage systems, ensuring they scale with customer and AI demands
- Build and evolve our deployment pipelines, enabling reliable, automated releases for AI-first products
- Set up and manage modern cloud infrastructure from scratch, leveraging **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)** to ensure consistency, security, and scalability
- Establish engineering best practices, including observability, incident response processes, and system hardening for an AI-first platform
- Drive robust analytics and monitoring to track performance, reliability, and the effectiveness of our AI solutions
- Mentor engineers and elevate the team's capabilities across infrastructure, scalability, and AI product development

## Requirements
- **Bachelor’s or Master’s degree** in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- **5+ years** of experience building production-grade software systems, with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability
- Proven expertise in **backend development** with **Node.js**, including API design, system architecture, and cloud-based services
- Experience with **cloud infrastructure** (**AWS**, **GCP**, or similar) and deploying production systems using **Infrastructure as Code** (e.g., **Terraform**, **Pulumi**)
- Hands-on experience with **database design**, performance tuning, and scaling high-throughput data systems
- Familiarity with building and maintaining **CI/CD pipelines**, automated testing, and modern **DevOps** practices
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a distributed, fast-paced environment
- Comfortable operating in early-stage, high-ownership environments with evolving requirements

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with **React** and **TypeScript** on the frontend
- Exposure to **LLM**-based systems, **AI infrastructure**, or agentic AI workflows

## Benefits
- Great health insurance, dental, and vision
- Gym and workspace stipends
- Computer and workspace enhancements
- Unlimited...

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