Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Ambient.ai; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company, Ambient.ai, is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to enhance and secure its cloud infrastructure. This role requires expertise in AWS, GCP, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate will drive key initiatives to improve engineering velocity and system reliability in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and GCP for cloud architecture and management.
• Proficient in CI/CD, automating releases and managing developer workflows.
• Strong Linux skills, specifically in managing and securing Ubuntu systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and development environment tooling.
• Implement cloud-native security services and manage vulnerabilities.

Skills

Cloud expertise

CI/CD experience

Infrastructure as Code

Linux & security skills

Monitoring know-how

Tooling mindset

IT and incident support

Job description

Ambient.ai is a unified, AI-powered physical security platform that helps enterprise organizations reduce risk, improve security operation efficiency, and gain critical insights. Seven of the top 10 U.S. technology companies and multiple Fortune 500 organizations across various industries leverage Ambient.ai to unify their security infrastructure and significantly enhance their security posture.

The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to monitor and detect threats continuously in real-time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to focus on legitimate threats. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less and prevent security incidents before they happen.

We were founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna, experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford University who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. We are a Series-B company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Allegion Ventures, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and investment angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil.

Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021, 2022, 2023, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We always seek passionate people who enjoy solving the most challenging problems with cutting-edge AI/ML.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to take a lead role in designing, securing, and scaling the infrastructure that powers our engineering teams and customer-facing applications. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer with deep experience in AWS and GCP, a strong security mindset, and a passion for building tools and systems that make developers more productive and operations more resilient.

You will be responsible for driving key initiatives around CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, security hardening, and developer tooling. In addition to technical depth, the ideal candidate brings operational maturity—able to manage vendor relationships, oversee hardware procurement, and help troubleshoot complex network or endpoint issues. If you enjoy working across the stack—from infrastructure to internal tools—and want to have a broad impact on engineering velocity and system reliability, this is the role for you.

The Impact You’ll Make:

• Design, manage, and scale infrastructure across AWS and GCP, with deep familiarity in both platforms.

• Own and optimize our CI/CD pipelines, dev environment tooling, and release automation processes.

• Implement and manage cloud-native security services like AWS WAF, Security Hub, and ensure best practices are followed.

• Review, prioritize, and patch security vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications.

• Build internal tools to help developers access logs, debug issues, and operate confidently in production environments.

• Manage vendor relationships for hardware procurement, pricing negotiation, and network troubleshooting.

• Lead MDM setup, device imaging, and work cross-functionally with IT for endpoint and access management.

• Maintain and harden systems running on Ubuntu, including patching, automation, and monitoring.

• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform) to manage and provision infrastructure consistently.

• Set up and maintain observability stacks (monitoring, logging, alerting) to ensure system reliability and transparency.

• Support incident response, on-call rotations, and improve operational resilience through root cause analysis and automation.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed DevOps best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

The amazing skills you'll bring to Ambient.ai:

• Cloud expertise in AWS and GCP — comfortable designing, scaling, and securing systems in both.

• CI/CD experience — building reliable pipelines, automating releases, and improving developer workflows.

• Infrastructure as Code — using Terraform and scripting to manage and automate cloud infrastructure.

• Linux & security skills — managing Ubuntu systems, applying patches, and handling security tools and practices.

• Monitoring know-how — setting up alerts, logs, and dashboards to keep systems healthy and reliable.

• Tooling mindset — building internal tools that help developers ship faster and debug more easily.

• IT and incident support — helping with device setup, access management, and on-call incident response.

Ambient.ai is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ambient does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws. Ambient is an E-Verify participant.