Senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid in SF)

About the role

We're looking for our first Backend Infra Engineer to scale our application as our company scales. We run a GPU-heavy design pipeline—graph-based jobs, bursty workloads, and tight cost targets. Your job is to keep that pipeline reliable, observable, and straightforward to change.

Who We Are:

At Vizcom, we're committed to creating products grounded in strong technical principles. Our approach is defined by a commitment to future-focused, high-quality coding, small yet highly efficient teams, practical tooling, and custom-tailored best practices. We emphasize future ease of maintenance over immediate coding convenience, trust and accountability within our team, and an understanding of our product and users. As a learning-driven team, we continually explore new technologies and approaches, ensuring our work is transparent and that each team member has a significant impact What you'll do:

Extend and maintain the GraphQL API and its Postgres schema.

Keep the job-scheduler stable—throughput, retries, and graceful fallbacks.

Define all cloud resources in Pulumi; deploy through GitHub Actions.

Optimize serverless GPU functions for cold-start, cost, and concurrency.

Set SLOs, add Datadog alerts, and maintain clear runbooks.

Focus: 60% backend, 40% infra

Benefits (for U.S. W2 Employees)

Full medical coverage for you, 25% for dependents

Dental & Vision insurance

Company equity

Flexible time off

Work from anywhere

401(k) with company match

Generous annual Learning & Development allowance

Compensation:

We are open to a variety of seniority levels for this role, therefore the annual base pay range targeted for this position is: $210,000 - $230,000. This role is eligible for equity.

The actual offer, including the compensation package, is determined based on multiple factors, including experience, location, and other business considerations. The overall package described in this post applies to W2, U.S. based employees- final package will be determined by local requirements and employment laws and accessibility.

*Please note, as part of our SOC2 Type 2 compliance, all employees are required to submit to a background check

Join Us and Make an Impact:

At Vizcom, we move fast, offer meaningful equity ownership, and provide a compelling growth trajectory for our team members. We believe in the art of industrial design and strive to improve our world through accelerated visionary processes. Join us in shaping a world designed by you.