Infrastructure Lead for AI-Native Cloud & Observability

Alt Platform Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision coverage 85%+

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Wellness stipend

Home office stipend

DoorDash Pass

Remote-first with WeWork access

401(k)

Alt Equity for full-time

Job summary

Alt Platform Inc is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform that the engineering team builds on. You will lead cloud infrastructure, developer environments, and observability to make the org faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient.

You will define how Alt operates as an AI-native engineering organization, shaping environments for agents and deployment pipelines used daily. This foundational hire will set the standard for how we operate as a team and as a platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure, platform, or SRE experience with deep AWS expertise (ECS, RDS/Aurora, EC2, ALB, IAM, CloudFormation or Terraform).
• Track record of owning and improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment infrastructure, and developer tooling at a growing company.
• Experience building or managing non-production environments: staging, epoxy environments, seed data systems, or similar.
• Strong opinions on observability. You’ve instrumented systems, built dashboards, and improved incident response.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills. You write great docs, ask smart questions, and give thoughtful feedback.
• Bonus: Experience with cost optimization at scale

Responsibilities

• Own cloud infrastructure end-to-end: AWS footprint management, right-size resources, cost visibility for informed scaling decisions.
• Build reproducible environments: prod-like instances, database cloning, per-branch services, seed data, auto-teardown.
• Fix staging: make non-production environments reliable and representative to avoid testing in production.
• Bring Terraform under control: reduce drift, build CI/CD automation, reviewable infra changes.
• Own observability and incident response: integrate Datadog, Sentry, Posthog, improve alerts and monitoring.
• Be a multiplier: lead infra for growing team, document tooling, mentor others, set standards for operations

Skills

AWS expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Non-production environments

Observability

Documentation & mentorship

Cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Alt Platform Inc is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform that the engineering team builds on. You will lead cloud infrastructure, developer environments, and observability to make the org faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient.

You will define how Alt operates as an AI-native engineering organization, shaping environments for agents and deployment pipelines used daily. This foundational hire will set the standard for how we operate as a team and as a platform.