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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform providing intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice for customer experience.
$270,000 - $415,000
DevOps
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
101 - 500 Employees
6+ years of experience
AI · Enterprise SaaS

Job Description

Decagon, the leading conversational AI platform, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join their Engineering team in San Francisco. With over $200M in funding from prestigious investors and partnerships with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, and Duolingo, Decagon is revolutionizing customer experience through AI.

The Infrastructure team is crucial in building and operating the foundations that power Decagon's services across networking, data, ML serving, developer platform, and real-time voice. The role focuses on designing and implementing high-scale, low-latency systems with clear SLOs and excellent developer ergonomics.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you'll be responsible for owning critical services end-to-end, improving reliability and performance, and creating paved-paths for the engineering team. The position requires 6+ years of experience in production infrastructure, with expertise in areas such as Core Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, ML Infrastructure, Platform (DevEx), or Voice Infrastructure.

The role offers competitive compensation ($270K – $415K base salary with equity) and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision coverage, and flexible time off. Decagon maintains an in-office culture driven by values including customer focus, relentless momentum, winner's mindset, and collaborative teamwork.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced infrastructure engineer looking to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing AI company while working with cutting-edge technologies and solving complex scaling challenges.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

  • Design and implement critical infrastructure services with strong SLOs
  • Partner with research and product teams to architect solutions
  • Tune service latencies and optimize performance
  • Evolve CI/CD and developer tooling
  • Support various deployment architectures
  • Lead infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices
  • Participate in on-call duties

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Kubernetes
  • 6+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale
  • Depth in at least one area across Core/Data/AI-ML/Platform/Voice
  • Proven track record meeting high availability and low latency targets
  • Excellent observability skills (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog)
  • Clear written communication skills
  • Strong Kubernetes experience (preferred)
  • Experience across multiple cloud providers (preferred)
  • Experience with customer-managed deployments (preferred)

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
  • Medical, dental, and vision
  • Flexible time off
  • Daily lunch/dinner & snacks in the office

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