Infra Engineer
Posted 26 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Founding Senior Infra Engineer, Distributed Infra”
BranchFactor Summary
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
- Visa sponsorship
- Offered
No salary listed for this role.
About us
We’re building toward a world where every company can become its own AI lab.
Goaly is a stealth AI startup founded by ex-Meta Superintelligence Labs engineers and researchers. Our mission is to dramatically lower the cost, time, and talent barriers to building proprietary AI — and make each generation of models faster and cheaper to build than the last.
Backed by leading AI investors and endorsed by frontier AI researchers and builders, we’re looking for exceptional new grads who want to work on hard, foundational AI systems problems with outsized ownership from day one.
About the role
You will own systems across the lifecycle of our accelerator clusters—from bringing capacity online and upgrading fleets to detecting failures, recovering safely, and retiring capacity. Your work will determine how quickly researchers can start experiments, how efficiently expensive hardware is used, and how reliably long-running workloads complete.
This is a hands-on infrastructure role spanning cloud and datacenter environments, cluster control planes, networking, storage, security, observability, and automation. You will partner with hardware and cloud providers and our Training, RL Systems, Post-Training, Inference, and Security teams to turn heterogeneous compute into a dependable platform. Depending on experience, you may lead multi-quarter initiatives and help set technical direction.
What you'll do
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Design, build, and operate control-plane services and infrastructure-as-code for provisioning, configuration, validation, upgrades, expansion, draining, recovery, and decommissioning; make every change repeatable, auditable, and safe to roll back.
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Bring new accelerator capacity online on schedule by coordinating dependencies across cloud providers, datacenter and hardware partners, networking, storage, security, and internal compute consumers.
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Build high-bandwidth, topology-aware connectivity within and across clusters; diagnose performance and reliability issues spanning hosts, switches, routing, transport, collective communication, and workload placement.
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Make clusters secure by default through identity and access controls, network policy, workload isolation, host and container hardening, secrets management, and trusted software and image supply chains.
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Improve fleet scalability, consistency, and fault tolerance by defining health signals, automating remediation, reducing configuration drift, and designing for partial failure.
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Establish service-level objectives and observability for cluster readiness, provisioning time, usable capacity, job-start latency, infrastructure-caused failures, utilization, and recovery time.