Staff Infra Engineer: Build AI Platform Foundations

Intelletec; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Intelletec is building an AI platform for the enterprise and seeks a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform from 0→1, architecting, deploying, scaling, and operating it hands-on. You’ll work with the founding team to shape the foundation and drive reliability at scale.

Expect to lead AWS infrastructure, containerized services with ECS/Fargate, and IaC with Terraform, while tackling distributed systems challenges and ensuring secure, observable operations across the stack.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production infrastructure.
• Deep AWS and containerization experience.
• Experience building infrastructure from 0→1.
• Experience with Postgres/Redis and messaging/streaming systems.
• AI/ML infrastructure experience is a plus.
• Architect systems and ship code to run them.

Responsibilities

• Build AWS infrastructure from the ground up.
• Design scalable infrastructure for AI and LLM workloads.
• Own compute, networking, CI/CD, observability, security, and reliability.
• Build and scale containerized services with ECS/Fargate.
• Drive infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Solve complex distributed systems and reliability challenges.

Skills

Distributed systems

Infrastructure architecture

Coding to ship

Ownership mindset

Tools

AWS

Terraform

ECS/Fargate

Postgres

Redis

CI/CD

Job description

Intelletec is building an AI platform for the enterprise and seeks a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the platform from 0→1, architecting, deploying, scaling, and operating it hands-on. You’ll work with the founding team to shape the foundation and drive reliability at scale.

Expect to lead AWS infrastructure, containerized services with ECS/Fargate, and IaC with Terraform, while tackling distributed systems challenges and ensuring secure, observable operations across the stack.