# Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure & Scaling
**Company:** [Parallel](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/parallel)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $150K-$300K
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, Kubernetes, Performance Tuning, Scalable Architecture, LLMs, Infrastructure As Code, Monitoring Tools, AWS, GCP
**Posted:** 2025-08-14
> 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.
## Job Description
## 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
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