[Hiring] Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure @Obvious

Role Description

We're looking for an engineer who has spent their career treating infrastructure as the product itself, bringing that lens to building AI-native infrastructure tooling. This role involves:

• Making deployments boring (in the best way possible)
• Owning CI/CD pipelines: optimizing build times, improving caching, reducing flakiness
• Evolving our Kubernetes (EKS) deployment strategy for reliability and speed
• Building and hardening the infrastructure behind model serving, inference, and agent tooling—not just the app layer around them
• Extending our telemetry with better instrumentation, smarter sampling, and actionable dashboards, including eval pipelines and LLM-ops guardrails
• Building alerting that catches actual problems and ignores noise
• Making the feedback loop from code to production as fast as possible
• Improving preview environments, local dev tooling, and testing infrastructure
• Eliminating toil through thoughtful automation, not another dashboard nobody reads
• Being the engineer who makes other engineers—and agents—faster

Qualifications

• Experience from a company where infrastructure was the product itself (e.g., Vercel, Railway, Fly.io, Render, Heroku, Netlify, Supabase, Modal, or similar)
• Applied infra background specifically to AI/LLM workloads: model serving, inference infrastructure, agent tooling, eval pipelines, or LLM-ops guardrails
• Real technical depth in distributed systems: Rust or Go, storage engines, control planes, Ceph, RDMA, eBPF, bare-metal automation, or Kubernetes internals
• A proven record of exceptional achievements and impact
• Strong Terraform skills—managed real infrastructure as code
• Hands-on experience with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Dash0, Braintrust, distributed tracing, metrics, structured logging
• Experience being on-call and building systems that improved on-call
• Thinking like a product manager for internal tools, focusing on developer (and agent) productivity
• Willingness to work hard, move fast, and grow quickly in a rapidly changing environment
• A humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and a desire to make the team succeed

Requirements

• A personal or self-directed infra track record: side projects, homelabs, open-source infra tooling, published writing or talks
• Security chops: IAM, zero-trust, secrets management
• SRE practices: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, chaos engineering
• Cost optimization for cloud infrastructure
• Based in Atlanta (nice to have, not required)
• A love for the talk "Simple Made Easy"

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