Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Sierra, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the core systems that make our AI platform possible. You’ll focus on making Sierra’s infrastructure secure, reliable, and scalable, enabling product teams to deliver with speed and…

• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform and LLM inference serving as we rapidly grow traffic.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform to ensure scalable, secure, and reproducible environments.
• Create and maintain a self-serve infrastructure platform that enables the rest of engineering to deploy and operate services.
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and release management, enabling fast, reliable deployments for Sierra’s platform.
• Architect and operate distributed systems that leverage distributed databases, retrieval systems, and ML models.

What they're looking for

• Strong software engineering background with 5–7+ years of hands-on development experience in highly technical products.
• A strong inclination towards building automation, tooling, and platform, along with designing maintainable systems.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• Hands-on expertise in CI/CD systems, release management, and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.).

Tech stack

• Terraform
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes