Palo Alto, United States
Infrastructure Engineer
Raydar · Palo Alto · United States
- Salary
- $200,000–$300,000 per year
- Contract
- Full time
- Occupation
- DevOps / Platform Engineer
Posted: 9/30/2026 · Last checked: 10/29/2026
Job description
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About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as an early infrastructure hire, owning cloud environments and delivery pipelines for a growing technical team. Work closely with the existing infrastructure engineer to strengthen current systems and deliver new projects as the organization scales.
What you'll do
- Own and extend the cloud footprint, including compute, networking, access management, storage and observability.
- Keep infrastructure reproducible and reviewable through infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Run CI/CD pipelines end to end, improving reliability, speed and developer experience.
- Work alongside the existing infrastructure engineer to execute on current architecture and remove blockers for engineering and research teams.
- Keep systems healthy through monitoring and incident handling, while managing spend and tightening security across container orchestration environments.
- Take on special projects such as new services, environments and tooling as the team grows.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Around 7 years of infrastructure engineering experience.
- Deep, recent cloud experience running production workloads.
- Strong ownership of infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD.
- Background at a company with a very high engineering bar or a fast-moving startup.
- Solid engineering fundamentals and the ability to write and ship production code.
- Currently based in the Bay Area.
Bonus points
- Experience with machine learning infrastructure.
- Experience in research-heavy environments or labs.
- Electrical or mechanical engineering background.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
- Equity
Location and work model
- Palo Alto, CA, United States
- On-site, 5 days per week in office
- Full-time
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