Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Aurelian
Seattle, WA
$200,000–$300,000
Jul 13, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level infrastructure engineering role at an AI startup serving 911 call centers. The work centers on building and maintaining the platform that underpins real-time AI agents — spanning analytics infrastructure with ClickHouse, observability and monitoring tooling, and developer productivity systems. The role suits an experienced infrastructure or platform engineer comfortable operating across backend application code and cloud infrastructure.
Senior level · 6+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,000 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,000–10,400
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title is 'Staff Infrastructure Engineer,' but the JD's requirements (6+ years, broad stack ownership, no cross-team org-wide scope described) support a Senior band rather than Staff. The 'Staff' label appears to reflect the company's internal leveling at an early-stage startup rather than the canonical Staff scope of setting technical direction across multiple teams.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role builds internal developer tooling, analytics infrastructure, and observability systems — primarily shipping code (→ 15-1252 Software Developers) — but the 'infrastructure' framing and cloud/ops emphasis make 15-1244 a plausible runner-up.
ClickHouse is mentioned as a specific technology for the analytics work but appears in a 'few examples you may work on' framing rather than a hard requirements section, so it is marked preferred.
Observability (instrumentation, logging, monitoring) is similarly described as example project work rather than a gated requirement.
The posting lists an office in Seattle and relocation assistance, indicating an on-site or hybrid expectation; remote is not offered.
No compensation figures are provided.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend engineering.
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