Staff Infrastructure Engineer – AI-Driven Reliability (Remote)

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Staff-level Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure for a 100% remote contract role. You’ll own reliability, scalability, observability, and push toward AI-driven self-managing infrastructure across cloud platforms.

You’ll build AI-powered workflows, ensure secure, scalable cloud systems, develop monitoring, incident response, and tooling to accelerate engineering velocity, while mentoring teammates and guiding architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Staff-level engineering experience in Infrastructure/DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on experience operating production systems on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Expertise in infrastructure as code, container orchestration, CI/CD, networking, cloud security, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build agentic infrastructure: Design and implement AI-powered workflows for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, incident detection, and automated remediation.
• Own reliability at scale: Architect resilient, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure that supports rapidly evolving AI products and workloads.
• Make systems observable: Build comprehensive logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting systems that provide actionable visibility into production health.
• Automate operational complexity: Eliminate repetitive infrastructure work through intelligent automation, self-service tooling, and agent-driven operations.
• Own infrastructure lifecycle management: Drive cloud security hygiene, dependency upgrades, runtime migrations, and infrastructure modernization from design through production.
• Improve developer velocity: Build infrastructure platforms and workflows that make deploying, debugging, and operating services effortless for engineers.
• Raise the engineering bar: Mentor engineers, establish technical standards, and influence architectural decisions through hands-on technical leadership.

Skills

Staff-level engineering

Infrastructure

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Platform Engineering

AWS

GCP

Azure

Infrastructure as code

Container orchestration

CI/CD

Networking

Cloud security

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident response

AI coding agents

Automation frameworks

Internal tools development

Technical leadership

Job description

Zekai is seeking a Staff-level Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure for a 100% remote contract role. You’ll own reliability, scalability, observability, and push toward AI-driven self-managing infrastructure across cloud platforms.

You’ll build AI-powered workflows, ensure secure, scalable cloud systems, develop monitoring, incident response, and tooling to accelerate engineering velocity, while mentoring teammates and guiding architectural decisions.