Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Cline

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Who we are:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With over 5M+ installs and 57k+ GitHub stars, a&nbsp;community that grew 4,704% year over year. Cline is the leading open-source AI coding agent. Trusted by the world's largest engineering organizations and individual developers alike, Cline is model agnostic, provider agnostic, and IDE agnostic, meeting engineers everywhere they work while keeping code on your infrastructure. Teams choose Cline because it's the only coding agent that combines cutting-edge capability with enterprise-grade security, using existing provider contracts directly with zero markup. Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, with participation from 1984 Ventures, Essence VC, and Cox Exponential.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we are looking for:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You’ll be responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure that supports our AI inference pipelines, backend APIs, and enterprise integrations. This role goes beyond just keeping systems running—you’ll design for scale, reliability, and developer velocity, collaborating closely with backend engineers and ML teams.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll also influence technical strategy, mentor other engineers, and drive infrastructure-wide initiatives that shape the future of our platform.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design and operate scalable, low-latency infrastructure for LLM inference, caching, and distributed APIs.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build highly reliable and observable systems—defining SLAs, SLIs, and SLOs for core services.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drive cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS/GCP/Azure), including networking, security, and cost optimization.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Implement CI/CD pipelines and developer productivity tooling to accelerate shipping velocity.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate with engineers to productionize AI models and optimize resource utilization (GPU scheduling, autoscaling).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks, ensuring high availability and resiliency across systems.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At the senior level: mentor engineers, lead cross-functional technical projects, and contribute to long-term infrastructure roadmap.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Qualifications:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6-8+ years experience in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering roles.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong background in distributed systems, networking, and performance optimization.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Solid programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or Bash).</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, and incident response.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our cash compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $250,000+.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including, experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Equity: In addition to the base salary, equity may be part of the total compensation package.<br><br></em><em>Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Includes a 401(k) plan.</em></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>