Infrastructure Engineer
Elicit · Oakland, CA
$185,000–$280,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Oakland, CA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is the first dedicated infrastructure hire at a roughly 30-person AI research platform, responsible for owning and evolving cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes cluster operations, Terraform-based IaC, CI/CD pipelines, observability, disaster recovery, and scaling single-tenant enterprise deployments. The role suits an experienced infrastructure or SRE engineer comfortable with compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and with contributing to backend code where application logic meets infrastructure.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,550 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,050–4,550
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (8)
The title 'Infrastructure / Platform Engineer' carries no explicit seniority level, so the title states no level; the compensation framework internally labels levels L4 (Senior), L5 (Expert), L6 (Principal), but the posting states it is optimizing for an L4/Senior-or-above hire, so the role is sized at Senior.
The compensation range spans two internal levels: $185–260k (L4/Senior) and $250–280k (L5/Expert). The min/max reported here cover the full stated range; the L6/Principal floor is listed as '>$260k' with no stated ceiling and is omitted from the numeric fields.
SOC classification: the role is primarily about BUILDING and OWNING infrastructure — writing IaC (Terraform), operating Kubernetes clusters, building CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and contributing to backend application code. This is squarely 15-1252 Software Developers (SRE/Platform Engineering). 15-1244 is noted as the runner-up given the operational/systems-administration dimension.
Argo CD is listed as the primary GitOps tool with GitHub Actions as an explicit alternative ('or equivalent'); both are captured under a single skill entry. GitHub Actions also appears separately as a named tool in the existing stack, so it is additionally listed as a standalone preferred skill.
DataDog is listed with 'or equivalent' — it is captured as the named tool representing the observability stack requirement, which is a hard gate; the 'or equivalent' qualifier means the specific product is interchangeable, not that observability experience is optional.
NIST AI framework and EU Cyber Resilience are mentioned as compliance commitments the role must follow through on; NIST AI framework is captured as a preferred skill. EU Cyber Resilience is a regulatory framework rather than a named tool and is omitted from the skills list.
Agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin) are described as 'how we build at Elicit' and the posting asks for an 'enthusiastic practitioner' — this is framed as a cultural/working-style requirement rather than a specific named technology gate, so it is not emitted as a skill.
CoreWeave and Parasail are mentioned as alternative compute providers for workload placement decisions; they appear only in narrative context and are not gated requirements, so they are omitted from the skills list.
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