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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

Quoted in full from Raydar's job posting. Gavroche does not edit it.

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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