Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Descript

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$220,000–$292,000/yr

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

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What you'll own:

  • Own our platform: GCP, Kubernetes, Temporal, the GPU fleet behind cloud export, and the deploy and rollback machinery everything ships through.
  • The AI enablement substrate: GPU capacity, training and inference pipelines, and the reliability and cost of the systems serving models in production.
  • Security comes with the systems you run: identity and access, secrets management, least-privilege boundaries, and supply-chain integrity.

What you bring:

  • 8+ years building and operating production distributed systems or equivalent server-side engineering with a heavy infrastructure focus.
  • Experience running systems where failure was expensive, using SLOs and error budgets as operating tools.
  • Proficiency with a major cloud provider and Kubernetes in production, with infrastructure-as-code as your default.

Required and preferred experience:

  • Required: 8+ years experience, distributed systems, cloud provider, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code.
  • Preferred: GPU and ML infrastructure, production security engineering, cloud cost modeling, CI/CD at monorepo scale.
  • Small teams owning a large surface, whether at a Series B to D company or on an internal platform team.

Descript

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. They are a team of 150 backed by top investors like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, with a culture that values collaboration and serendipitous discovery.

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