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Sieve · 5 days ago

Founding Reliability Engineer

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$150K/yr - $300K/yr
date3+ years exp

Sieve is an AI research lab focused on video data, seeking to hire its first engineer dedicated to infrastructure. The role involves ensuring reliability, observability, and security for their systems while working closely with the CTO and founding engineers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureDeveloper APIsMachine LearningSoftwareVideo

Responsibilities

Work with engineering to design and validate the infrastructure powering PB-scale workloads
Build and maintain Terraform-managed multi-cloud deployments
Improve cloud and data security (SSO, IAM, least privilege, auditability)
Own incident response and harden systems against failure
Develop CI/CD systems that minimize user error and maximize safety
Build monitoring + alerting platforms (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics)
Wrap internal reliability tooling with simple UIs for engineers

Qualification

Infrastructure at scaleCloud experienceInfrastructure-as-CodeObservability systemsBackend fundamentalsNetworkingSecurityIncident responseLightweight internal toolingObject storage systemsHigh ownership mindset

Required

3+ years building internal infrastructure at scale
Experience on-call for Sev 0 / Sev 1 production incidents (L3 preferred)
Strong cloud experience (GCP, AWS, Oracle, Cloudflare, etc.)
Deep Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
Familiarity with Argo, Helm, Kustomize, or similar deployment tools
Experience operating observability systems (Prometheus, OTel, VictoriaMetrics)
Backend fundamentals in Python, Go, Rust, or C++
Strong networking + security intuition, including SSO implementation
High ownership mindset over critical systems

Preferred

Experience on-call for Sev 0 / Sev 1 production incidents (L3 preferred)
Deep Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
Experience building lightweight internal tooling (APIs, dashboards, Svelte)
Familiarity with object storage systems (“buckets”)
Active GitHub or portfolio projects

Company

Sieve

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Sieve supplies video data to frontier AI labs.
dateFounded in 2022
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.sievedata.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$4.12M
Key Investors
Matrix
2022-11-14Seed· $4M
2022-03-29Pre Seed· $0.12M

Leadership Team

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Mokshith Voodarla
Co-Founder, CEO
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Abhinav A.
Co-Founder, CTO
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