Staff Infra Engineer: Build a Fast, Safe Software Factory

Genius AI (HearstLab); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Genius AI in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design and build a standardized, automated software factory. You will own CI/CD tooling, write designs, and mentor engineers while partnering with product teams to ship code daily.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, delivering reliable platform capabilities and affordable incident response across the stack.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with infrastructure, platform, or developer experience.
• Hands-on with AWS and Kubernetes in production.
• Fluent with infrastructure as code (Terraform) and GitOps-style delivery (ArgoCD).
• Experience designing CI/CD at scale, including pipeline standardization, self-hosted runners, build caching, progressive delivery, and safe rollbacks.
• Strong observability and reliability instincts, defining SLOs and improving alerting.

Responsibilities

• Scale the CI platform as the orchestration layer for the software factory.
• Build systems that allow engineers to deploy without worry.
• Design guardrails, validation, and auto-approval paths for safe infrastructure as code changes by product engineers.
• Develop tools and access for engineers and AI agents to investigate and resolve incidents across app, service, compute, storage, and network layers without Infra intervention.
• Own SLOs, codify monitoring in Terraform, and eliminate noisy or ineffective monitors.
• Write technical designs, review complex changes, and mentor engineers, setting the platform’s technical direction.

Skills

Staff-level ownership

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD at scale

Observability

Incident response

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Tools

ArgoCD

Job description

Genius AI in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design and build a standardized, automated software factory. You will own CI/CD tooling, write designs, and mentor engineers while partnering with product teams to ship code daily.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitOps, delivering reliable platform capabilities and affordable incident response across the stack.