Salient

AI Servicing for Auto Lenders

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

$200K - $300K0.08% - 0.20%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Devops
Experience
6+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Kubernetes
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About the role

We are hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, production-grade infrastructure from the ground up for enterprise, big bank clients with critical data. You'll own and develop our deployment pipelines, observability systems, and cloud infrastructure as we transition to a Kubernetes-based architecture. This is an onsite role in San Francisco — close collaboration with product, engineering, and leadership is critical.

You’ll have significant autonomy: we're looking for someone who can operate independently, set technical direction, and build systems that scale without extensive guidance.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement a new scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure for real-time AI-driven voice services.
  • Support our migration to Kubernetes (from ECS) and establish infrastructure best practices.
  • Build, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and safe deployments.
  • Own monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems to ensure uptime and performance.
  • Be the primary PoC for on-call responsibilities to maintain 24/7 uptime systems
  • Automate operational workflows and infrastructure provisioning (Infrastructure-as-Code).
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to debug live issues, improve system resilience, and optimize performance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience, including experience leading projects independently.
  • Deep expertise in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or similar).
  • Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker & Kubernetes) in production environments.
  • Strong awareness of networking concepts and how to implement within AWS (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP, Firewalls, NAT)
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
  • Strong software engineering skills with demonstrated proficiency in languages commonly used for infrastructure automation like Python, Go, and Bash
  • Experience designing monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana).
  • Strong understanding of security, reliability, and scaling best practices for cloud-native systems.
  • Excellent communication skills and a hands-on, ownership-driven mindset.
  • In-person in San Francisco four days a week

Nice to have

  • Experience working with real-time communication systems (SIP, LiveKit etc.)
  • Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare).

About Salient

Salient is an AI workflow automation tool for lenders. We're working with the largest auto lenders in America and are hiring!

Salient
Founded:2023
Batch:W23
Team Size:40
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Ari Malik
Ari Malik
Founder
Mukund Tibrewala
Mukund Tibrewala
Founder