Site Reliability Engineer: Production-Scale AI Infra

Better Tomorrow Ventures; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness benefits

Unlimited PTO

Office meals stipend

401(k) retirement plan

Team events

Parental leave

Job summary

Basis seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our AI-powered accounting platform. You will join a high-leverage infrastructure team that owns systems keeping Basis fast, secure, and always on as we scale.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who loves building robust systems, reducing complexity through automation, and taking real ownership. Strong software engineering skills and willingness to wear multiple hats are essential in our

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure at scale.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, databases, and security principles.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, and modern infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure for our production systems.
• Own cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, and networking, optimizing for availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and automation to improve developer velocity and system reliability.
• Lead incident response efforts, including on-call rotations, incident coordination, postmortems, and root cause analyses.
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to balance reliability, performance, cost, and speed of development.
• Automate operational workflows such as capacity planning, safe rollouts, graceful degradation, and data access controls.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping shape the culture and standards of the infrastructure team.

Skills

Production infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Containerization

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus/Grafana

PagerDuty

SLOs

Neon

Modal

Job description

Basis seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our AI-powered accounting platform. You will join a high-leverage infrastructure team that owns systems keeping Basis fast, secure, and always on as we scale.

This is a hands-on role for an engineer who loves building robust systems, reducing complexity through automation, and taking real ownership. Strong software engineering skills and willingness to wear multiple hats are essential in our