Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Serval; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Impact

Growth

Culture

Job summary

Serval is building an AI platform to automate complex IT workflows for modern enterprises. As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure, you'll scale foundational systems powering Serval's AI agents and enable on-premises deployments for enterprises.

You will design distributed architectures, write Terraform modules, and build deployment templates to support self-hosted environments alongside cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience writing Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience building, packaging, and supporting self-hosted deployments for enterprise customers.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for automation and tooling.
• Strong understanding of networking, databases, containers, and orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and incident management tools.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems powering Serval's AI agents and data pipelines.
• Write and maintain Terraform modules to provision cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Build and maintain deployment packages and templates for self-hosted deployments.
• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting for enterprise self-hosted deployments.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems through monitoring and incident response.
• Build internal tools to enable product engineers to deploy and operate services.
• Collaborate with engineering to design scalable architectures for cloud and self-hosted models.
• Profile and optimize compute, storage, networking, and database layers.
• Implement security best practices and enterprise compliance for deployments.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

Networking

Containerization

Incident management

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

PagerDuty

Job description

Who We Are

Serval is the AI platform for IT teams — replacing legacy systems like ServiceNow with automation that frees people to focus on meaningful work. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by innovative companies such as Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, Mercor, Langchain, and Verkada to automate more than 50% of their IT tickets.

Serval "automates the automation," using a natural language-to-code workflow builder and AI agents that discover and deliver automations for tedious IT workflows. What started as IT automation has expanded into a horizontal automation engine adopted by HR, Finance, Legal, Security, and Engineering teams.

Our mission is to free IT departments from the #helpdesk channel by creating the simplest way to automate employee onboarding/offboarding, software access management, and the long tail of employee requests. Long term, our vision is to develop a universal workflow automation and enterprise service management platform for all business functions.

We're backed by industry-leading investors, including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, and others, and founded by product and engineering leaders from Verkada.

Role Overview

Serval is building an AI platform to automate complex IT workflows for modern enterprises. As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure, you'll build and scale the foundational systems that power Serval's AI agents and workflow automation platform. A critical part of this role is enabling and supporting self-hosted deployments for enterprise customers who require on-premises or private cloud installations. This role is for engineers with deep expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure-as-code, production operations, and customer-facing infrastructure support who want to shape the technical architecture of a fast-growing platform.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed systems that power Serval's AI agents, workflow orchestration, and data pipelines.

• Write and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure environments.

• Build and maintain deployment packages, installation scripts, and infrastructure templates that enable customers to self-host Serval in their own environments.

• Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to enterprise customers deploying and operating self-hosted instances of Serval.

• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.

• Build internal tools and platforms that enable product engineers to deploy, test, and operate services efficiently.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to design resilient, scalable architectures that support both cloud-hosted and self-hosted deployment models.

• Profile and optimize system performance, including compute, storage, networking, and database layers.

• Implement security best practices and ensure infrastructure meets enterprise compliance requirements for both managed and self-hosted deployments.

What You'll Need

• 3+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.

• Strong experience writing and maintaining Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management.

• Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including compute, networking, storage, and managed services.

• Experience building, packaging, and supporting self-hosted or on-premises software deployments for enterprise customers.

• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages for building automation, tooling, and infrastructure services.

• Strong understanding of networking, databases, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and orchestration systems.

• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to customers and provide infrastructure support and guidance.

• Ability to debug complex system issues, analyze performance bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes in production, including cluster management and workload orchestration.

• Background in CI/CD systems, build pipelines, and deployment automation.

• Experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal, including long-running workflows, retries, and failure handling.

• Experience with data infrastructure (streaming systems like Kafka, data warehouses, ETL pipelines).

• Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

• Experience supporting enterprise customers with complex deployment requirements.

• Previous work at a high-growth startup or experience scaling infrastructure rapidly.

What We Offer

• Impact: Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.

• Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors. Grow rapidly with the company.

• Culture: Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.