Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Niantic Spatial•San Francisco, CA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Niantic Spatial builds spatial AI models and services that help people and machines reason, learn, and act safely in the physical world. The company transforms camera imagery, video, sensor data, and archives into accurate representations of real places that machines can use to locate themselves and understand how places change over time. The Software Engineer, Infrastructure will join a small infrastructure team with broad shared ownership of the cloud platform, developer tooling, and edge services. The role works across SRE, infrastructure, and developer platform, helping maintain systems used by the entire engineering organization and growing into ownership of parts of the stack. The team works in a high-collaboration environment, with a minimum of three days per week on-site in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or Bellevue. The role is eligible for equity, bonus, and benefits. The base salary range is $171,000–$230,000 for Bay Area candidates and $162,500–$218,500 for Seattle/Bellevue candidates. Actual salary depends on assessed skills, experience, and location.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience managing infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
Production hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or another major cloud provider.
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar.
Production experience with containers and container orchestration, such as Kubernetes.
Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or C++, as well as shell scripting and Linux systems.
Comfort using AI-assisted tools in engineering work, or strong interest in building that habit.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with API gateways, load balancers, or CDNs.
Familiarity with modern authentication and authorization, such as OAuth 2.0, OIDC, or cloud IAM.
Experience with GPU workloads or ML infrastructure.
Experience with message queuing systems.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure as code.
Improve reliability through monitoring, alerting, and service-level objectives.
Help run source control, CI/CD pipelines, and build infrastructure so engineers can ship quickly and safely.
Share on-call responsibilities and participate in incident response and follow-up.
Automate repetitive operational work.
Help run the edge API gateway, CDN, and authentication and authorization systems with the team.
Help provision and monitor compute and GPU capacity across teams.
Use AI tools to build, automate, and maintain infrastructure, and help shape how the team uses them.