[Hiring] Infrastructure Engineer @Alt Platform Inc

Role Description

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform that Alt's engineering team builds on. Today, infrastructure work at Alt is distributed across product engineers with no dedicated owner. You'll change that. You'll lead our cloud infrastructure, developer environments, and observability, making the entire engineering org faster, more reliable, and more cost-efficient.

This is a foundational hire. You'll define how Alt operates as an AI-native engineering organization, from the environments our agents run against to the deployment pipelines our engineers ship through every day.

What You'll Do Here:

• Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end:
• Take ownership of Alt's AWS footprint (ECS, RDS/Aurora, EC2, S3, SQS, ALB, and more).
• Right-size over-provisioned resources, de-provision orphaned services, implement resource tagging, and build cost visibility.
• Build reproducible environments:
• Lead the effort to give every engineer (and every AI agent) the ability to spin up isolated, prod-like instances of Alt on demand.
• This means database cloning, per-branch services, routing, seed data, and auto-teardown.
• Fix staging:
• Make non-production environments reliable and representative.
• Bring Terraform under control:
• Fix infrastructure-as-code drift, build CI/CD automation, and make infrastructure changes safe and reviewable.
• Own observability and incident response:
• Rationalize our monitoring, improve alerting, and make sure we catch issues before our users do.
• Be a multiplier:
• Level up the org through documentation, tooling, code reviews, and mentorship.

This is a perfect fit if you…

• Think in systems, not tickets.
• Care about developer experience.
• Are cost-conscious by instinct.
• Are excited about AI-native engineering.
• Want to lead, not just execute.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE experience with deep AWS expertise (ECS, RDS/Aurora, EC2, ALB, IAM, CloudFormation or Terraform).
• A track record of owning and improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment infrastructure, and developer tooling at a growing company.
• Experience building or managing non-production environments: staging, ephemeral environments, seed data systems, or similar.
• Strong opinions on observability. You've instrumented systems, built dashboards, and improved incident response.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills. You write great docs, ask smart questions, and give thoughtful feedback.
• Bonus: Experience with cost optimization at scale.

Benefits

• Direct impact: You'll be the first dedicated infrastructure hire, the person who defines how Alt's engineering platform works and scales.
• Autonomy: High-trust environment with ownership over critical infrastructure and developer experience.
• For full-time Employees:
• We cover 85% of your medical, dental, and vision, and up to 50% for dependents. HSA/FSA available.
• Generous PTO that people actually take.
• Parental leave at full salary.
• $200/month wellness + $100/month home office stipend.
• Free DoorDash Pass membership, because dinner shouldn't be a decision.
• Remote-first (for most positions), with WeWork access when you want a room with other humans.
• 401(k).
• Alt Equity to all full-time employees.