Senior Cloud Infra Engineer - Terraform, AWS & AI Platform

Motion Recruitment; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible paid time off

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is recruiting for an IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a top AI company in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating large-scale AI cloud infrastructure used across engineering, finance, go-to-market, and people teams.

You will work with modern cloud platforms, IaC, automation tooling, and software-driven operations to deliver reliable, scalable systems supporting mission-critical infrastructure in a high-growth environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in internal IT Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed systems for internal tools and applications.
• Hands-on with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong programming and automation skills using Python or Go.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve scalable internal systems and services.
• Develop automation to eliminate manual tasks and prevent incidents.
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance.
• Partner with engineering and business teams on architecture and platform improvements.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Python/Go programming

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Automation & IaC

SRE/DevOps mindset

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

GitHub Actions

Job description

Motion Recruitment is recruiting for an IT Infrastructure Engineer to join a top AI company in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating large-scale AI cloud infrastructure used across engineering, finance, go-to-market, and people teams.

You will work with modern cloud platforms, IaC, automation tooling, and software-driven operations to deliver reliable, scalable systems supporting mission-critical infrastructure in a high-growth environment.