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Infrastructure Engineer / AI Pen Tester Startup / NYC / up to $300k

New York, NY, USA

Job Type

In Office

Workspace

New York

About the Role

As an SRE / Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll own the reliability, scalability and security of the platform that runs large numbers of AI-driven security tests in parallel.

You’ll work across:
Cloud infrastructure and networking
Container orchestration
Observability and incident response
Infrastructure-as-code and security hardening

This is not a “keep the lights on” ops role – you’ll be designing and evolving the core systems that make the product possible.

Requirements

Location: New York – HybridType: Full-time, permanentCompensation: Top-of-market salary + meaningful equity

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain production infrastructure for a high-throughput security testing platform.

  • Own availability, performance, and cost for core services and environments.

  • Run and improve containerised workloads (e.g. Kubernetes/ECS/Nomad) used to orchestrate large numbers of concurrent scans.

  • Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code for all cloud resources (networking, compute, storage, IAM, etc.).

  • Build and refine monitoring, logging, and alerting across services; define SLOs and own on-call for what you build.

  • Collaborate closely with backend and security engineers to design systems that are safe, resilient and easy to operate.

  • Continuously optimise and simplify: reduce toil, remove bottlenecks, and make the platform easier to scale.

Requirements

  • 4+ years building and running production infrastructure (SRE, Infra, DevOps, or Platform roles).

  • Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

  • Solid understanding of networking, load balancing, and distributed systems in production environments.

  • Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi or similar).

  • Experience running containerised workloads in production (Kubernetes, ECS, etc.).

  • Comfortable owning services end-to-end – design, implementation, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.

  • Track record of working in fast-moving teams and shipping high-quality systems quickly.

Nice to Have

  • Background in security, pentesting, or offensive/defensive security tooling.

  • Experience in early-stage or high-growth startups.

  • Experience building infra for high-volume data processing or other compute-heavy workloads.

Why This Role

  • Impact: Your work underpins an AI platform that’s redefining how security testing is done.

  • Ownership: Small, senior team; you’ll be the person others escalate to for infra and reliability.

  • Growth: Direct exposure to cutting-edge AI + security, and the chance to shape infra from an early stage.


About the Company

We’re partnering with a VC-backed AI security startup that’s automating offensive security – using AI agents to continuously probe and attack web apps and infrastructure the way a top human hacker would, but at machine scale. Their platform replaces periodic, manual pentests with always-on, AI-driven testing.

They’re lean, engineering-led, and growing quickly with paying customers.

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