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Roles
Compensation
USD 175000 - 240000
$175k-$240k + equity. ONSITE (5 days/week).
- Salary period
- yearly
- Location basis
- Seattle, Chicago (ONSITE)
- Equity
- equity
- Bonus
- Bonus: Took a company through FedRAMP (Moderate or High), CMMC, NIST 800-171, or maintained SOC 2 Type II at scale; AWS GovCloud (US) production experience; Familiarity with handling export-controlled (ITAR / EAR) or CUI data in cloud environments; Multi-tenant SaaS with per-customer SSO, data isolation, or compliance scoping (we run per-organization Auth0 tenants today); Trigger.dev, Inngest, Temporal, or other durable-execution background-job platforms; Next.js production deployment experience (edge, ISR, preview environments)
Tech stack
Required
Nice to have
Location
Seattle, Chicago
Work setup
- Employment
- full-time
- Level
- unclear
- Remote policy
- ONSITE (5 days/week)
- Remote scope
- onsite
- Travel
- unclear
- Relocation
- unclear
- Visa
- No
- Authorization
- US citizen, lawful permanent resident, or otherwise qualify as a "US person" under ITAR (22 CFR 120.62)
- Clearance
- ITAR / CUI data handling required
Role details
Responsibilities
- Owned the architecture and operation of Silkline's cloud platform on AWS, codified in Pulumi
- Built the data infrastructure practice — replication, backups, performance, and disaster recovery for Postgres
- Built the developer platform that lets a small team ship like a larger one — CI/CD, preview environments, deploy safety, codegen pipelines, local dev parity
- Matured the observability and on-call practice on Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Posthog, and Sentry — real SLOs, useful dashboards, postmortems people actually read
- Maintained SOC 2 and ITAR, expanded our AWS GovCloud footprint, and led the company through FedRAMP authorization and the CMMC / NIST 800-171 controls our customers ask for
- Made Trigger.dev a dependable backbone for syncs and integrations, with clear recovery paths when things break
- Made our AI infrastructure (Bedrock, Cerebras, Braintrust evals) reliable and observable as it becomes a bigger part of the product
Requirements
- 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, or SRE roles at companies that care about reliability, including some early-stage experience where you wore many hats
- Deep Pulumi expertise — or deep Terraform / CDK and willingness to go all-in on Pulumi. You think in IaC, ship reusable components, and can read a state file
- AWS depth — not "used EKS once" depth, but "debugged VPC routing at 2am and have strong opinions on IAM" depth
- Postgres operations chops — you've tuned queries, run replication, migrated tens of millions of rows without downtime, and know what pg_stat_statements is for
- Production discipline — you've owned an on-call rotation, written useful postmortems, and know the difference between a real SLO and a vanity SLO
- Builder mindset — you'd rather build the right abstraction than wire up another state-management script. You ship code, not just configs.
- Comfort with ambiguity and early-stage chaos — priorities shift, scope shifts, and you own the outcome anyway
Application
Email brent@silkline.ai (mention HN).
- Portfolio
- unclear
- GitHub
- unclear
- Cover letter
- unclear
- Apply flow
Company context
The future of AI isn't "agents everywhere!" but a thoughtful approach to building a product that incorporates AI from day one.
- Product
- AI-incorporated supply chain platform for aerospace, defense, nuclear
- Industry
- unclear
Contact
brent@silkline.ai
Description
Silkline | Infra/Software Engineer | Seattle, Chicago | ONSITE (5 days/week). Come join a team that believes the future of AI isn't "agents everywhere!" but a thoughtful approach to building a product that incorporates AI from day one. Modern hardware supply chains run on spreadsheets, email, and PDFs; we're fixing this and on the path to becoming THE supply chain platform for aerospace, defense, nuclear, and beyond. Customers: Machina Labs, Astranis, K2 Space, Castelion, Antares, and more. They use Silkline to manage suppliers, track $M+ in orders, automate RFQs, and stay ITAR-compliant. Every day of production delay costs $50k+—our platform keeps them moving. Open Roles: - Founding Infra: https://jobs.gem.com/silkline/am9icG9zdDpQyr2jvCN0RE56hX_De1Tw - Software Engineer: https://jobs.gem.com/silkline/am9icG9zdDrLwsEQTKKa02Ut_F9kgzby We're selling software faster than we can build it out. Come be employee 12 -> 20.
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