Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Cambridge, MA (Onsite)

An MIT spin-out building a platform that makes AI faster, cheaper, and easier to deploy - cutting costs up to 90% with 2×-15× performance gains for enterprise customers is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join their team.

What Will I Be Doing?

• Scale enterprise infrastructure - Design, build, and maintain secure infrastructure for Fortune 500 AI deployments
• Own Kubernetes distribution - Package, release, and manage lifecycle of customer-distributed components (Helm charts, CRDs, operators)
• Multi-cloud expertise - Provide infrastructure guidance across AWS, GCP, and Azure with deep knowledge of each platform's quirks
• Secure software delivery - Design artifact distribution via OCI registries, GitOps pipelines, and private repos
• Bridge hosted & on-prem - Define contracts between cloud-hosted and customer-hosted environments
• Production reliability - Implement versioning, upgrade paths, rollback mechanisms, and zero-downtime deployments

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years infrastructure/DevOps experience with production Kubernetes expertise
• Kubernetes mastery - Written Helm charts, CRDs, deployed operators/controllers in production
• Multi-cloud fluency - Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and Azure quirks and best practices
• Enterprise distribution - Experience designing software distribution for on-prem/customer-hosted deployments
• Modern toolchain - Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), container registries, scripting (Bash/Go/Python)

Bonus points:

• Commercial Kubernetes software distribution (Datadog Agent, Prometheus Operator, etc.)
• Security expertise in Kubernetes and cloud environments (Cosign, SLSA, SBOMs)
• Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd) and multi-tenancy/RBAC

What's In It For Me?

• Pre-Series A startup ($10M seed, Series A planned 2026)
• Direct impact on Fortune 500 customers and live enterprise AI deployments
• Work with MIT CSAIL researchers and industry veterans building cutting-edge AI infrastructure
• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits

Apply now for immediate consideration!