AI-Native Infra Lead: AWS, CI/CD & Observability

Royper Royco LLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

WeWork access when needed

401(k)

Alt Equity to all full-time employees

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Alt is building AI-native engineering platforms and is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale our AWS footprint, environments, and tooling. You will lead cost-optimized cloud operations, build production-like sandboxes for engineers and AI agents, and improve staging and observability across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with a growing engineering team, define IaC practices, and drive incident response while mentoring teammates and raising the bar for reliability and developer

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE.
• Deep AWS expertise (ECS, RDS/Aurora, EC2, ALB).
• Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling at a growing company.
• Experience building/managing non-production environments.
• Strong opinions on observability; dashboards and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end: AWS footprint optimization, right-sizing, tagging, cost visibility.
• Build reproducible environments for engineers and AI agents with isolated, prod-like instances.
• Fix staging: make non-production environments reliable and representative.
• Bring infrastructure-as-code under control; CI/CD automation and safe changes.
• Own observability and incident response with Datadog, Sentry, Posthog.
• Mentor the team and set infrastructure standards across the org.

Skills

AWS expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Non-prod environments

Observability

Documentation & mentorship

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Datadog

Sentry

Posthog

Job description

Alt is building AI-native engineering platforms and is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to own and scale our AWS footprint, environments, and tooling. You will lead cost-optimized cloud operations, build production-like sandboxes for engineers and AI agents, and improve staging and observability across the stack.

You’ll collaborate with a growing engineering team, define IaC practices, and drive incident response while mentoring teammates and raising the bar for reliability and developer