Member of Engineering (Infrastructure)

poolside; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology company is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design and manage their infrastructure and tooling, ensuring seamless access for researchers and engineers. This remote position offers flexible hours, extensive vacation days, health insurance allowances, and promotes a diverse and inclusive culture.

Benefits

Fully remote work & flexible hours

37 days/year of vacation & holidays

Health insurance allowance for you and dependants

Company-provided equipment

Wellbeing and home office allowances

Frequent team get-togethers

Great diverse & inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Design and manage the infrastructure for engineers and researchers.
• Leverage automation to multiply impact.
• Develop tools to increase the efficiency of engineering teams.

Skills

Proficient in Go

Writing backend services

Writing CLI applications

Debugging and Problem-Solving

Debugging issues on Linux

Running containers using Kubernetes

Deep familiarity with AWS services

Managing IAM policies

Hands-on experience with Terraform

Using Ansible

Observability and Monitoring

Managing CI/CD pipelines

Incident Response protocols

Job description

ABOUT POOLSIDE

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.

poolside exists to be this company - to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress.

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ABOUT OUR TEAM

We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and comes together once a month in-person for 3 days and for longer offsites twice a year.

Our R&D and production teams are a combination of more research and more engineering-oriented profiles, however, everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and has a strong underlying knowledge of software development. We believe that good engineering leads to faster development iterations, which allows us to compound our efforts.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Design and implement the infrastructure and tooling used by poolside researchers and engineers.

YOUR MISSION

The infrastructure team has 2 main missions: Make it seamless for our researchers and engineers to access the infrastructure they need, when they need it and ensure the underlying infrastructure for our cloud offering is robust, reliable, and scalable. As a team we also handle incident response and security, maintaining trust and stability for our customers and users.

As part of the infrastructure team you are in a unique position to have an impact on all areas of poolside: from the building of our foundational models (from training to fine-tuning), all the way to our cloud offering.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be responsible for designing and managing the infrastructure required by poolside's engineers and researchers. Leveraging automation to multiply your impact is essential for this role. Additionally, you will develop tools and solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Proficient in Go

• Experience in writing backend services

• Familiarity in writing CLI applications

• Debugging and Problem-Solving

• Expertise in debugging issues on Linux, including network and process-related problems

• Containerization and Orchestration

• Experience running containers using Kubernetes

• Experience with managed or self-hosted Kubernetes

• Cloud Services

• Deep familiarity with AWS services

• Comfortable managing IAM policies and ensuring proper permission settings

• Infrastructure as Code

• Hands-on experience with Terraform or OpenTofu for managing complex AWS environments.

• Familiarity using Ansible for configuring bare-metal hosts or baking AMIs

• Operations

• Skilled in Observability and Monitoring tools and practices

• Adept in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines

• Experienced in Incident Response protocols and best practices

PROCESS

• Intro call with one of our Founding Engineers

• Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers

• Team-fit call with People team

• Final interview with Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

BENEFITS

• Fully remote work & flexible hours

• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays

• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents

• Company-provided equipment

• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances

• Frequent team get togethers

• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture