Cloud Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer

Tessera Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Tessera Labs is building production-grade cloud infrastructure to run AI systems across multiple cloud providers. You’ll own critical components, focusing on reliability, security, and observability in production environments.

This senior IC role requires hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP, with a strong CI/CD/GitOps mindset. You’ll collaborate with product and platform engineers to ensure scalable deployments and strong governance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and GCP.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade cloud infrastructure.
• Support Tessera’s infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.
• Own the GCP variant of Tessera’s cloud infrastructure and assist other clouds.
• Enable portable infrastructure across customer environments
• Improve observability, security, and system reliability
• Deploy and operate applications with Kubernetes and Terraform

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

CI/CD & GitOps

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform

CI/CD tooling

FluxCD

Job description

About Tessera Labs

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize Artificial Intelligence. Backed by Foundation Capital and led by a world‑class founding team, we build multi‑agent AI systems that automate complex business workflows across platforms like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, MuleSoft, and more. Our mission is simple but ambitious: bring real AI automation to the enterprise — with speed, precision, and measurable impact. We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and build at the frontier of applied AI.

About The Team

The Cloud Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundational infrastructure that lets Tessera run reliably, securely, and consistently across customer environments. This includes a portable cloud infrastructure that makes each environment production‑ready: container orchestration (Kubernetes), networking, and automation that ensures our product behaves the same regardless of the underlying cloud provider. This is a high‑impact role because it directly enables our ability to onboard and operate enterprise customer environments under strict security and compliance constraints while preserving developer velocity. The work reduces integration risk, standardizes operational practices across hyperscalers, and ensures product teams can ship safely without infrastructure becoming a bottleneck.

The Role

As a Cloud Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer, you’ll design and own production‑grade infrastructure that supports Tessera’s AI systems across multiple cloud providers. You’ll work on everything from Kubernetes and Terraform to observability, security, and reliability — with real ownership over architectural decisions. This is a hands‑on, senior IC role for someone who enjoys thinking deeply about systems and building infrastructure the right way.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain production‑grade cloud infrastructure
• Be part of a team that supports Tessera’s infrastructure across every cloud provider
• Build and be the primary owner of the GCP variant of Tessera’s cloud infrastructure, also support other Cloud infrastructures
• Enable portable infrastructure across customer environments
• Improve observability, security, and system reliability
• Deploy and operate applications using Kubernetes and Terraform
• Partner closely with product and platform engineers to unblock delivery

Must‑Have Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform
• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes
• Strong hands‑on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps
• Strong networking fundamentals
• Proven experience deploying and operating real production systems

Nice‑to‑Have Qualifications

• Experience with FluxCD
• Deep networking expertise
• A passion (and curiosity) about clean, unified infrastructure and best practices

Who You Are

• Somebody with a passion for learning new things and robust, reliable infrastructure
• Comfortable owning and defending complex infrastructure decisions
• Experienced in startups and/or big tech environments
• Highly self‑motivated with a strong ownership mindset
• Someone who enjoys building foundational systems that other engineers rely on

Why Join Tessera Labs

• Work on cutting‑edge AI infrastructure with real enterprise impact
• Own foundational systems at an early‑stage, high‑growth company
• Collaborate with a sharp, execution‑focused founding team
• Shape how AI is deployed across the largest enterprise platforms in the world

Compensation Range: $180K - $250K