Staff Cloud Infra Engineer - AI/GenAI Platform

Typeface; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401(k)

Medical/dental/vision

HSA/FSA

Flexible time off

Lunch & snacks

Mentorship & impact

Job summary

Typeface is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to lead core platform infrastructure. You will design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure powering AI workloads, ensuring reliability, security, and performance as the company grows.

The role sits hybrid in Palo Alto with in-office collaboration three days a week. You will deploy production-grade infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure, manage Kubernetes, implement IaC, and drive observability and security best practices across the stack.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in production environments.
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Solid understanding of observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar) and incident management.
• Experience with security best practices for cloud-native environments.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently and in teams.
• Bonus: Experience scaling infrastructure for AI/ML or generative AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production-grade cloud infrastructure for AI/GenAI workloads at scale.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes clusters and orchestration pipelines for high-availability services.
• Develop and evolve infrastructure-as-code to ensure reproducible environments.
• Implement observability—monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing—and incident response acceleration.
• Harden security posture with IAM, network policies, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Optimize cost, performance, and reliability of GPU/compute-heavy workloads for AI.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Security to define SLOs and improve platform resilience.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines and deployments for fast, safe releases across environments.
• Mentor fellow engineers and contribute to a strong infra culture.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud infrastructure design

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi/CloudFormation)

Observability tooling

Security best practices

CI/CD automation

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Kubernetes tooling

Job description

Typeface is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to lead core platform infrastructure. You will design, build, and scale cloud infrastructure powering AI workloads, ensuring reliability, security, and performance as the company grows.

The role sits hybrid in Palo Alto with in-office collaboration three days a week. You will deploy production-grade infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure, manage Kubernetes, implement IaC, and drive observability and security best practices across the stack.