Infrastructure Engineer (Senior)

About GPTZero

GPTZero is on a mission to restore trust and transparency on the internet. As the leading AI detection platform, we empower educators, students, journalists, marketers, and writers to navigate the evolving landscape of AI-generated content. With millions of users and institutions relying on us, we’re building a category-defining company at the intersection of AI and information integrity.

Our team comes from high-performing engineering cultures, including Uber, Meta, Amazon, Affirm, and leading AI research labs, including Princeton, Caltech, MILA, and Vector.

What we're looking for

In this role, you'll build the next-gen platform to verify the origin, quality, and factuality of the world's information. The ideal candidate is someone who has built containerized clouds from the ground up, is comfortable wearing multiple hats and diving into the application layer, and is comfortable prioritizing tradeoffs for rapid product iteration.

You'll be working on a fast-paced team of passionate builders and partnering closely with our ML and design teams to create industry-defining software that has attracted over 8M users globally.

What you'll contribute

• Lead infrastructure for our AWS cloud, and building on our containerization and CI/CD pipelines

• Scale NLP workloads (web scraping, text search, and language model output streaming)

• Build secure and well-tested machine learning, authentication, and payment flows on our Node.js and Postgresql backend

• Collaborate on defining the product roadmap with our ML, design, and business teams (for example, identifying new ways to use AI to provide value)

• Build robust infrastructure to maintain uptime for over 400k daily active users

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Kubernetes, AWS, Go, Node.js, and Python

• Proficiency with databases (SQL, NoSQL, and text search)

• Self-starter (pitch, plan, and implement as a project owner in a fast-paced team)

• Highly motivated to make positive societal impact

• Wear multiple hats and be a leader as our team grows

• Visa for work in Canada or US

• Bonus:

  • strong open-source portfolio

  • experience working in an early-stage startup environment

  • proficiency in typescript

  • proficiency in IaaC (Terraform, CDK)

Who you'll be joining

Our Team

We’re a small team. We value ownership, transparency, and listening to each other. 

Everyone works and interacts with everyone. Everyone is free to attend meetings across product functions, whether it's diving into designs or dropping into our ML learning groups. 

Here are some people you’ll work closely with

• Alex (our CTO) R&D at Uber self-driving division and Facebook, 3 patents in ML, 2021 and 2019 Best ML Hack at Stanford

• Nazar (ML), employee #2 and head of ML at the profitable a16z-backed generative media company Reface, taking them to 250M+ downloads and 200+ headcount

• Jonathan (Strategy & Operations), former Director of Product at YipitData, led and scaled corporate business arm from 250K to 20M+ ARR, and from Series B to Series E 

Together, we are committed to making a permanent impact on the future of the internet, and on humanity.

Our Perks

• 🏥 Health, dental, and vision coverage

• 💻 Hybrid work in Downtown Office with lunch

• 🚀 Competitive salary

• 🍰 Competitive equity for a founding team member

  • We are a cash-flow positive/profitable company experiencing exponential growth in multiple industries. We are open to sharing our growth metrics with applicants.

• 🎉 Quarterly team retreats and offsites

• 🏝 Flexible PTO

• 💡Learning stipend, mentorship, and time with world-class advisors, including:

  • Tom Glocer (former CEO of Reuters, who recently reviewed the beta and is advising our product team on launching hallucination detection)

  • Russ Heddleston (CEO Docsend, our favorite GTM advisor who recently dropped into all-hands to share additional strategies for growing our self-serve GTM motion)

  • Ruslan Salakhutdinov (former director of AI at Apple, and current VP of Research for LLama, who meets monthly with our team to advise on AI model development)

  • Amy Saper (founding product marketer at Stripe, who offers time with our team on growth strategies)

  • Jack Altman (CEO of Lattice, brother of Sam Altman) on building great product culture

  • Mike Smith (COO Walmart.com, COO StitchFix) and Jeff Barrett CTO StitchFix, on scaling a great engineering team. 

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