Platform Infrastructure Engineer

NeoSigma6 months ago
San Francisco, CA, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

What you'll do

  • Take full ownership of NeoSigma's platform infrastructure - lead architectural decisions and design tradeoffs from day one
  • Build and scale core infrastructure across multi-cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation end-to-end, with strong rollout, rollback, and environment parity
  • Architect for security from day one: IAM, secrets management, least-privilege access, encryption, and audit logging baked in by default
  • Design and enforce data retention policies - minimal collection, defined TTLs, PII handling - so privacy is structural, not an afterthought
  • Build and maintain observability: structured logging, metrics, alerting, and on-call practices
  • Lead enterprise deployment architecture - design and ship BYOC and VPC-isolated deployments for regulated enterprise customers
  • Own the technical relationship with enterprise customers during deployment: SSO/SAML integration, network configuration, data residency, and compliance documentation (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering - we look for slope over intercept
  • Shipped real infra at a startup and lived with the consequences
  • Strong fundamentals in multi-cloud infra (GCP, AWS, Azure), Kubernetes, and Terraform
  • Security-first mindset: blast radius, attack surface, audit trails
  • Experience with SQL, object storage, and caching layers for high-throughput workloads
  • Familiarity with enterprise deployment patterns: VPC isolation, BYOC, SSO/SAML/SCIM, compliance surface
  • High ownership mentality - you see problems through to completion and don't wait for someone else to notice what's broken
  • Generalist instincts: comfortable across infra, backend services, data pipelines, and deployment tooling
  • Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Genuine interest in AI systems and enthusiasm for building infra that makes agentic products work in production

Our Core Values

  • Customer Obsession - We start with the customer and work backwards. We aim to earn trust through consistent delivery, thoughtful listening, and by obsessing over customers.
  • Intellectual Honesty - We operate with high trust and low ego. Ideas matter more than titles, and we communicate openly and directly while assuming good intent, even in strong disagreement.
  • Bias for Action - We set high standards and move quickly to meet them. We prefer building and learning with customers over debating in the abstract, and we iterate based on real feedback.
  • Extreme Ownership - We take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks. Ownership means seeing problems through to completion and ensuring solutions truly work in practice.

Benefits and perks

  • Competitive salary plus meaningful equity package
  • Comprehensive medical benefits and generous PTO
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Direct impact on company direction and technical decisions
  • High ownership and the opportunity to make a career-defining impact
  • Visa sponsorship

About Us

NeoSigma is a product-driven research lab building the intelligence layer that helps close the feedback loop between your customers, products, and AI systems.

We are a small, intensely technical team of researchers and engineers who have trained frontier-scale models and widely used AI products and agents at MIT, Parallel Web, Essential AI, Apple, and Amazon.

Required Skills

SSO/SAML integration
Kubernetes
Multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
Terraform
SQL
Object storage
CI/CD pipelines
BYOC deployment
Security best practices (IAM, encryption, least-privilege access)
Compliance documentation (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
Caching layers
VPC isolation