Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure

📍 Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid)

💰 Compensation: $250,000–$350,000 Base + Equity

🕒 Employment Type: Full-time

About the Opportunity

Surge Group is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure to join a cutting-edge AI company building next-generation infrastructure for large-scale machine learning and scientific computing.

This role is ideal for an experienced infrastructure engineer who enjoys building cloud platforms from the ground up, designing scalable deployment pipelines, and enabling engineering teams to move quickly and reliably.

You'll own core infrastructure across cloud platforms, CI/CD, release engineering, production operations, and infrastructure automation while helping shape the long-term technical foundation of a fast-growing AI organization.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own and scale cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, secure, and reliable deployments.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using modern tooling.
• Operate and improve production infrastructure, observability, and incident response processes.
• Design scalable, Kubernetes-based infrastructure to support AI workloads.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to improve deployment workflows and developer productivity.
• Build self-service infrastructure and automation tools.
• Establish best practices around cloud operations, security, reliability, and platform engineering.

What We're Looking For

• 4–6 years of experience operating production cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong operational mindset with experience supporting production systems.
• Experience designing scalable infrastructure for high-growth engineering teams.
• Excellent troubleshooting and automation skills.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving startup environments.

Preferred Experience

• Terraform or Pulumi
• Platform Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Machine Learning infrastructure
• GPU workloads
• Scientific computing or HPC environments

What Makes You Successful

• Strong ownership mentality.
• Excellent systems thinking.
• Passion for automation and developer productivity.
• Infrastructure-first mindset.
• Ability to solve complex operational challenges while maintaining high reliability.

If you're passionate about building world-class infrastructure that powers cutting-edge AI systems, we'd love to hear from you.