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# Tech Lead - Core Infrastructure

- **Company:** BUILD, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, PCI Data Security Standards
- **Published:** June 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5527dfca7da2b348

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Tooling?

## Description

You own the foundational systems that make Build's agentic AI real in production. This role is responsible for the infrastructure that orchestrates autonomous agents, manages long-running, high-stakes workflows, and guarantees reliability at institutional scale. Your work sets the hard limits of speed, autonomy, and trust across the entire product;

 * Build and operate the core primitives: agent orchestration, workflow engines, state management, eventing, and execution reliability.
 * Design systems that survive real-world failure modes: partial data, human handoffs, long timelines, regulatory constraints, and zero tolerance for silent errors.
 * Make architectural decisions that directly determine product capability, velocity, and customer trust.
 * Own infrastructure end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and ongoing evolution.
 * Work tightly with product, applied AI, and domain experts to translate abstract workflows into durable, production-grade systems.
 * Set the technical bar for robustness and clarity; other engineers build on what you create.

Security and compliance responsibilities

This role carries direct responsibility for the security posture of Build's production infrastructure. In practice, that means:

 * Owning security oversight across the infrastructure layer, including risk assessments, tooling, and incident response readiness.
 * Ensuring systems meet and maintain compliance requirements - including SOC 2 and, where applicable, PCI DSS - and that evidence is collected, documented, and audit-ready.
 * Maintaining up-to-date documentation of security-relevant responsibilities across the engineering team, stored in a shared repository and updated as roles evolve.
 * Acting as the primary point of contact for infrastructure security during audits, customer due diligence, and compliance reviews.
 * Collaborating with any privacy or data protection function to ensure PII handling, data residency, and regulatory obligations are reflected in system design from day one.


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