Site Reliability Engineer – AI Platform Infra (Onsite NYC)

getbasis.ai; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness benefits

Time off — unlimited PTO + holidays

In-Office perks — meals, kitchen, desk

Job summary

Basis is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our AI-powered accounting platform. You’ll join a high-leverage infrastructure team at the intersection of product and platform, owning systems that keepBasis fast, secure, and always on as we scale.

This hands-on role requires building robust systems, reducing complexity through automation, and taking real ownership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building/operating production infrastructure at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one language.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security principles.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, and modern infrastructure automation.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments and taking ownership end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure production infrastructure.
• Own cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking for availability and performance.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation to boost velocity and reliability.
• Lead incident response, on-call rotations, postmortems, and root-cause analyses.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to balance reliability, cost, and speed of development.
• Automate capacity planning, safe rollouts, graceful degradation, and data access controls.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship within the infrastructure team.

Skills

5+ years experience

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Containerization

Security basics

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus/Grafana

PagerDuty

Job description

Basis is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our AI-powered accounting platform. You’ll join a high-leverage infrastructure team at the intersection of product and platform, owning systems that keepBasis fast, secure, and always on as we scale.

This hands-on role requires building robust systems, reducing complexity through automation, and taking real ownership.