Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Rational Dynamics

Designing and building cloud infrastructure that powers Rational Dynamics' AI platform. Collaborating with a small team to accelerate research and customer deployments.

Posted 4/12/2026full-timeBerkeley • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own, extend, and improve cloud infrastructure that powers both production customer systems and internal research platforms, including compute, networking, storage, and deployment environments
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and observability that keep the team shipping fast and catching problems early
Support GPU workloads and ML infrastructure needs in close collaboration with the research & ML team
Drive security posture and compliance efforts, including standards relevant to enterprise customers such as SOC 2
Build deployment and operations infrastructure that enables Forward Deployed Engineers to reliably build solutions quickly in heterogeneous enterprise cloud environments
Make pragmatic, well-reasoned infrastructure decisions that balance speed now with scalability later
Continuously improve system reliability, deployment simplicity, uptime, and cost efficiency through monitoring, feedback loops, and disciplined engineering

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience designing and deploying reliable production infrastructure
5+ years of experience designing and operating cloud infrastructure in production across multiple cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Strong command of Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD tooling
Security-conscious mindset with experience navigating enterprise compliance requirements such as SOC 2, PCI, DSS, or equivalent
Strong programming skills, with experience building infrastructure tooling in Go or an equivalent systems language
Familiarity with data pipeline tooling for batch and long-running workflows (e.g. Airflow, Temporal, etc.)
Comfort operating on a small team with dynamic requirements, threading the needle of speed and scalability, willing to take any task critical to customers and the team

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Life and AD&D insurance
20 days of paid time off
Nine sick days
401(k) plan with a company match

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Hard Skills & Tools

cloud infrastructureCI/CD pipelinesKubernetesTerraformGodata pipeline toolingGPU workloadsML infrastructureproduction systemsmonitoring

Soft Skills

security-conscious mindsetcollaborationpragmatic decision-makingadaptabilityproblem-solvingteamworkcommunicationreliability focusscalability balancedynamic requirements handling

Certifications

SOC 2PCIDSS