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# Software Engineer, Security

- **Company:** David AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Prometheus, Datadog, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** June 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2503c1c410dfa45e

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering supporting large-scale SaaS or cloud systems.

 * Hands-on experience applying Security best practices in production systems and cloud infrastructure.
 * Strong experience building and running reliable, highly available, and scalable systems.
 * Hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, containers (like Kubernetes), and cloud networking basics.
 * Experience implementing and maintaining observability tooling across monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
 * Comfortable working in fast-paced teams and collaborating closely with product, ML, and engineering teams.
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus points if you have

 * Past experience in an early-stage startup environment, especially defining SRE culture and tooling from scratch.
 * Familiarity with incident management automation or self-healing infrastructure patterns.

## Description

As a Software Engineer, Security at David AI, you will shape and build the foundation for reliability, observability, and scalability across David AI's infrastructure. Working closely with our engineering and product teams, you'll help ensure our systems are resilient, efficient, and designed to scale as the company grows., * Own David AI's observability stack, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing, to provide engineers with clear visibility into system health, reliability, and performance.

 * Partner closely with product and platform engineering teams to design systems that are scalable, resilient, and reliable from day one, not as an afterthought.
 * Design and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS using Terraform and modern DevOps tooling to support rapid product and research iteration.
 * Lead improvements across deployment pipelines, CI/CD systems, and incident response processes to reduce downtime, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen engineering velocity.
 * Define and evolve the foundation of SRE practices at David AI, influencing reliability culture, tooling standards, operational excellence, and best practices across the engineering organization.


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