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Infrastructure Engineer

Descript is building an AI-powered audio and video editor with real-time collaboration and breakthrough UX. The company seeks an Infrastructure Engineer to own and improve core production infrastructure, drive reliability improvements, and work with engineering leadership to define and deliver reliability goals while mentoring other engineers.

Skills

  • 5+ years in production/site-reliability engineering or 5+ years server-side engineering with infrastructure focus
  • Solid understanding of at least two: public cloud, Linux systems administration, DevOps tooling
  • Basic coding skills for automation and guardrails
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Experience mentoring and conducting code/architecture reviews

Responsibilities

  • Develop technical and business solutions enabling engineers to improve product quality and system reliability
  • Drive improvements to core infrastructure: production clusters, networking, databases, and observability systems
  • Champion best practices in code reviews, technical designs, and launch plans
  • Own incident management, postmortems, and fire drill processes
  • Work with engineering leadership to set reliability goals and prioritize production work
  • Build automation, guardrails, and tooling to reduce toil and improve operational confidence
  • Mentor and advise engineers on architecture, reliability, and operational practices

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred
  • Equivalent practical experience accepted

Benefits

  • Generous healthcare package
  • Catered lunches at HQ
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Remote/hybrid work flexibility
  • Opportunity to influence product and infrastructure at an early-growth company
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BENEFITS & PERKS
Dental Insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Vision Insurance
Paid Holidays
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$191,000/yr - $232,000/yr
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Full-time, hybrid
DATE POSTED
August 22, 2025
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