SRE: Build resilient, scalable infra for AI workloads

getbasis.ai; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Unlimited PTO

Daily meal stipends

Fully stocked kitchen

Wellhub gym membership

401(k) retirement plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

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

This hands-on role emphasizes building robust systems, automating complexity, and taking ownership end-to-end. Strong software engineering skills and multi-hat collaboration are valued in our growing startup.

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.

Skills

5+ years exp

Cloud infra

Networking

Databases

Security principles

CI/CD experience

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Neon

Modal

Job description

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

This hands-on role emphasizes building robust systems, automating complexity, and taking ownership end-to-end. Strong software engineering skills and multi-hat collaboration are valued in our growing startup.