Infrastructure Engineer

Writer Writer · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Engineering, product & design

Infrastructure engineer role focused on building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant AI infrastructure on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) to support a high-traffic AI platform. Responsibilities include owning reliability, performance, efficiency, observability, and incident response for core services, and collaborating with product and engineering teams on system design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use and build AI native approaches for operational tasks and infrastructure management and platforms using Python, Go, or similar languages, significantly reducing manual toil across our production environment
  2. Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure AI solutions on public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) to support WRITER's rapidly expanding, high-traffic AI platform
  3. Own the reliability, performance, and efficiency of WRITER’s core services, defining and upholding stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets
  4. Own the observability stack for monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure rapid detection of issues across our complex distributed systems
  5. Lead incident response, post-mortems, and root cause analyses, applying learnings to proactively prevent future outages and build a more resilient system architecture

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience in Infrastructure engineering, DevOps, Production engineering, Cloud platform or a similar role focused on building and operating large-scale, high-availability production systems
  • Deep expertise with cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred), containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go for automation and monitoring
  • Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to maintain system health and performance

Nice to have

  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, with a talent for building strong relationships and Connecting with cross-functional teams
  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability, eager to Own mission-critical systems and drive them toward peak performance and unparalleled reliability

What the JD emphasized

  • Challenge the status quo
  • Connecting
  • Own

Other signals

  • AI-native approaches for operational tasks
  • scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure AI solutions
  • high-traffic AI platform
  • reliability, performance, and efficiency of WRITER’s core services
  • observability stack for monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
  • incident response, post-mortems, and root cause analyses
  • system design for reliability, performance, and scalability