Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Outtake•New York, NY

1d•$160,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world. Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to. So we built something different: an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors, and takes down impersonators, automating protection in hours, not weeks. Built by ex-Palantir, ex-CTO/founders, and ex-Notion engineers, Outtake is designed for clarity, autonomy, and velocity. Our goal is ambitious: become the trust layer of the modern internet. And we intend to do it with a lean, dense, exceptionally talented team. Outtake is backed by top-tier investors and operators who believe in our mission and our model. With strong financial footing and a long runway, we prioritize creating an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.

Requirements

Experience operating at staff scope: identifying important technical problems, setting direction across team boundaries, and leading complex projects from design through adoption.
A track record of designing and building distributed infrastructure systems used by other engineers or products.
Experience scaling production systems through significant increases in data volume, traffic, or workload complexity.
Deep knowledge of relational database architecture, including data modeling, access patterns, indexing, partitioning, sharding, caching, and migration.
Experience building or evolving high-throughput asynchronous systems, with a strong understanding of scheduling, ordering, retries, idempotency, backpressure, and partial failure.
Experience with large-scale search and retrieval systems, including the tradeoffs among lexical search, vector retrieval, indexing speed, freshness, relevance, and cost.
Experience building ingestion, streaming, or batch-processing systems for large data volumes.
Work across the underlying cloud infrastructure when changes to compute, storage, networking, or deployment architecture are required to scale our data systems.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction for Outtake’s infrastructure across databases, search and retrieval, data processing, asynchronous execution, and cloud architecture.
Redesign our search and retrieval systems to support fast investigation across billions of pieces of content.
Evolve our relational database architecture through sharding, partitioning, indexing, caching, and new data-access patterns.
Own the application and infrastructure changes required to migrate live systems safely, including changes to service topology and deployment strategy.
Design and build scalable asynchronous systems for scheduling, queues, workflows, retries, backpressure, rate limiting, and failure recovery.
Build data infrastructure for high-volume ingestion, streaming, batch processing, enrichment, and reprocessing.
Develop shared infrastructure services, APIs, libraries, and primitives that product engineers can use without needing to understand the underlying implementation.
Own the cloud foundations required by these systems, including compute, storage, networking, isolation, resource management, and deployment architecture.
Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and make tradeoffs across latency, throughput, consistency, durability, cost, and complexity.
Work across engineering teams to identify repeated infrastructure problems and turn them into reusable systems.
Operate the systems you build, use production evidence to improve their architecture, and automate recurring operational work.
Write technical proposals, establish architectural standards, and guide other engineers through complex systems decisions.
As the infrastructure foundation matures, we expect to grow this into a broader infrastructure team with dedicated ownership across data systems, cloud infrastructure, and developer platforms.