AI Infrastructure Engineer — Build Scalable Backend & Cloud

Gray Swan AI; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with up to 4% matching

28 days annual leave

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Catered lunches (Pittsburgh office)

Flexible work arrangements

Visa sponsorship available for high-pq

Job summary

Gray Swan AI is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale the backend systems powering our AI security platform. You’ll own cloud infrastructure across Kubernetes and cloud providers, build scalable APIs, and work with ML, security, and product teams to deliver reliable AI workloads.

This role emphasizes ownership, scalable architectures, and fast-moving startup dynamics. You’ll collaborate with engineers to keep systems fast, resilient, and secure as Gray Swan grows in the

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building backend infrastructure or distributed systems in production environments.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++, Go, Python, Rust, or Java.
• Experience operating services on Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Deep understanding of networking, distributed systems, containers, service orchestration, and scalable architectures.
• Experience designing APIs, microservices, asynchronous systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Comfortable debugging complex production issues and improving reliability through automation and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available backend services and distributed systems that power Gray Swan's AI security platform.
• Own cloud infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, networking, storage, and compute to ensure reliable production environments.
• Build scalable APIs, internal platform services, and infrastructure tooling that improve developer productivity and system reliability.
• Improve system observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and automated alerting.
• Optimize performance, latency, and infrastructure costs while maintaining reliability and security.
• Partner closely with machine learning, security, and product engineering teams to deliver production-ready infrastructure for AI workloads.

Skills

Backend infra

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

APIs & microservices

Networking

Programming languages

Observability

Tools

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Job description

Gray Swan AI is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale the backend systems powering our AI security platform. You’ll own cloud infrastructure across Kubernetes and cloud providers, build scalable APIs, and work with ML, security, and product teams to deliver reliable AI workloads.

This role emphasizes ownership, scalable architectures, and fast-moving startup dynamics. You’ll collaborate with engineers to keep systems fast, resilient, and secure as Gray Swan grows in the