Jobs / United States / Sierra Technologies Ltd
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Sierra Technologies Ltd · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
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- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Sierra Technologies Ltd paid sponsored hires in similar roles10 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $200k–$230k, median $228k. Most were filed at wage level III (70%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
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About the role
ABOUT US Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. WHAT YOU’LL DO As a Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Sierra, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the core systems that make our AI platform possible. You’ll focus on making Sierra’s infrastructure secure, reliable, and scalable, enabling product teams to deliver with speed and confidence. - Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform and LLM inference serving as we rapidly grow traffic. - Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform to ensure scalable, secure, and reproducible environments. - Create and maintain a self-serve infrastructure platform that enables the rest of engineering to deploy and operate services. - Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines and release management, enabling fast, reliable deployments for Sierra’s platform. - Architect and operate distributed systems that leverage distributed databases, retrieval systems, and ML models. - Develop and maintain core data serving abstractions along with authentication and security features (SSO, RBAC, authentication controls). - Navigate and integrate our stack with enterprise customer environments in scalable and maintainable ways. - Enhance observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing) to provide deep visibility into platform health and performance. - Lead and participate in incident management, improving system resilience through proactive monitoring, root cause analysis, and postmortems. WHAT YOU’LL BRING - Strong software engineering background with 5–7+ years of hands-on development experience in highly technical products. - A strong inclination towards building automation, tooling, and platform, along with designing maintainable systems. - Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred). - Hands-on expertise in CI/CD systems, release management, and container orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). - Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, etc.). - Experience in incident response and operating distributed systems in production. - Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience EVEN BETTER… - Production experience working with LLMs and machine learning models. - Background in distributed systems, running SaaS services at scale, and agentic architecture. - Familiarity with security and authentication protocols (OAuth, SSO, mTLS).