Beacon Venture Capital

Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure, Multiple Seniority Levels

Beacon Venture Capital

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AirflowAWSCloudDynamoDBIoTPostgresPythonRedisTerraform

About the role

  • Cloud Infrastructure Setup and Maintenance: Design, provision, and maintain AWS infrastructure using IaC tools such as AWS CDK or Terraform.\n
  • Build CI/CD and testing for apps, infra, and ML pipelines using GitHub Actions, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline.\n
  • Operate secure networking with VPCs, PrivateLink, and VPC endpoints. Manage IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and audit logging.\n
  • LLM Platform and Runtime: Stand up and operate model endpoints using AWS Bedrock and/or SageMaker; evaluate when to use ECS/EKS, Lambda, or Batch for inference jobs.\n
  • Build and maintain application services that call LLMs through clean APIs, with streaming, batching, and backoff strategies.\n
  • Implement prompt and tool execution flows with LangChain or similar, including agent tools and function calling.\n
  • RAG Data Systems and Vector Search: Design chunking and embedding pipelines for documents, time series, and multimedia. Orchestrate with Step Functions or Airflow.\n
  • Operate vector search using OpenSearch Serverless, Aurora PostgreSQL with pgvector, or Pinecone. Tune recall, latency, and cost.\n
  • Build and maintain knowledge bases and data syncs from S3, Aurora, DynamoDB, and external sources.\n
  • Evaluation, Observability, and Cost Governance: Create offline and online eval harnesses for prompts, retrievers, and chains. Track quality, latency, and regression risk.\n
  • Instrument model and app telemetry with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry. Build token usage and cost dashboards with budgets and alerts.\n
  • Add guardrails, rate limits, fallbacks, and provider routing for resilience.\n
  • Safety, Privacy, and Compliance: Implement PII detection and redaction, access controls, content filters, and human-in-the-loop review where needed.\n
  • Use Bedrock Guardrails or policy services to enforce safety standards. Maintain audit trails for regulated environments.\n
  • Data Pipeline Construction: Build ingestion and processing pipelines for structured, unstructured, and multimedia data. Ensure integrity, lineage, and cataloging with Glue and Lake Formation.\n
  • Optimize bulk data movement and storage in S3, Glacier, and tiered storage. Use Athena for ad-hoc analysis.\n
  • IoT Deployment Management: Manage infrastructure that deploys to and communicates with edge devices. Support secure messaging, identity, and over-the-air updates.\n
  • Analytics and Application Support: Partner with product and application teams to integrate retrieval services, embeddings, and LLM chains into user-facing features.\n
  • Provide expert troubleshooting for cloud and ML services with an emphasis on uptime and performance.\n
  • Performance Optimization: Tune retrieval quality, context window use, and caching with Redis or Bedrock Knowledge Bases.\n
  • Optimize inference with model selection, quantization where applicable, GPU/CPU instance choices, and autoscaling strategies.

Requirements

  • Do you have at least 3 years of professional work experience, or a masters related to this role?\n
  • Do you have experience designing, setting up and maintaining cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CDK, ensuring robust CI/CD and testing components?\n
  • Do you have experience building and managing data pipelines?\n
  • For this role, we would like the person to be in the San Francisco Bay Area. Are you living there now or willing to relocate?\n
  • Are you currently authorized to work lawfully in the United States?*\n
  • Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B visa)?\n
  • Are you presently a US Person? A “U.S. Person” is defined as a: Lawful Permanent Resident: U.S. Citizen OR Legal Immigrant with a “Green Card” * Protected Individual granted asylum or refugee status