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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Salient | LAYIQ

You've operated production infrastructure on AWS and/or GCP at meaningful scale, and you're comfortable across providers.
You manage infrastructure as code and have brought messy, hand-built environments under control.
You've delivered measurable cloud cost savings and can explain pricing models, commitments, and data transfer costs.
You've planned capacity for spiky or latency-sensitive workloads and tuned autoscaling in production.
You build monitoring and alerting that catch problems early, and you lead incidents calmly.
You design for least privilege, auditability, and safe change management by default.
You favor simple, consistent systems over sophisticated ones and know what not to build.
You write clearly and can explain cost and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, finance, and leadership.
Nice to Have
Experience with real-time voice, telephony, WebRTC, or streaming systems.
Experience running GPU or LLM inference workloads, or managing spend on hosted AI APIs.
FinOps practice experience (e.g., cost allocation programs, FinOps certification) or experience in a regulated industry such as financial services.
Why This Role
Salient runs live borrower conversations for lenders, and our infrastructure spans three providers that grew quickly alongside the business. You'll have the ownership and leverage to make it consistent, predictable, and efficient, with direct impact on reliability for customers and on the company's margins.
At Salient, we’re building at the edge of AI - fast, focused, and with real ownership. Sprints and major launches move quickly, and we look for people who are energized by that pace. Our team typically works around 60 hours per week, beginning at 8:00 AM
, with four days spent collaborating in person at our San Francisco office.
We also offer a benefits package designed to support our full-time employees: medical, dental, and vision coverage
, a generous 401(k), and catered lunches.
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